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The Lonely Road
First published 1938
In the dangerous aftermath of the 1715 Jacobite rising, Jason Wayne flees Hanoverian soldiers across Sussex and is forced to depend on people whom respectable society treats with suspicion. Romany travellers, smugglers and highwaymen offer routes, shelter and information unavailable through official channels, while romance gives Jason another reason to survive a political landscape in which the wrong association may be fatal.
Farnol treats the post-rebellion countryside as a network of competing loyalties rather than a pacified kingdom. Redcoats represent state authority, but local communities possess their own codes and memories, and fugitives survive by moving between them. The road of the title is therefore both literal and political: Jason’s journey tests whether loyalty to a defeated cause can be separated from loyalty to particular people.
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