Misfortune - Softcover

When Lord Geoffroy Loveall finds an abandoned baby, he treats the child as the daughter he has always wanted, despite the male gender of the child, who grows up desperately conflicted in the richest home in nineteenth-century England. A first novel. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Wesley Stace is the author of three widely acclaimed novels: Misfortune, selected by the Washington Post and Amazon as one of the best novels of the year; By George, one of the New York Public Library s 2007 Books To Remember; and Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer, one of the Wall Street Journal s best fiction books of 2011. He has released fifteen albums under the name John Wesley Harding and has appeared on Late Night with Conan O Brien, The Late Show with David Letterman, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He is the founder of the Cabinet of Wonders variety show, which has featured appearances by Rosanne Cash, Colson Whitehead, and Joshua Ferris, among many others, and which can be heard on NPR. He contributes frequently to the New York Times and lives in Philadelphia.