The hosts won a total of seven medals in the pool on Saturday as Brodie Williams took men's 100m backstroke silver and both relay teams claimed silver.įreya Anderson, Isabella Hindley, Abbie Wood and Anna Hopkin finished behind Australia in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay. She finished second behind Australia's Katja Dedekind, who set a new world record of 26.56 seconds, bettering the old one by 0.11 seconds.
Peaty's compatriot Imogen Clark took 50m breaststroke silver before Scotland's Stephen Clegg won silver in the 50m freestyle S13.Įngland's Hannah Russell took silver in the Para-swimming too. Andrew Taylor seems to leave open the possibility of a sequel or two, which would be very welcome.English fans in Birmingham had already been treated to a home gold earlier on Saturday as Ben Proud powered to 50m butterfly victory.Īdam Peaty, back from a broken foot, qualified fastest for the men's 100m breaststroke final in 59.02 seconds. This is an excellent story – wonderfully well plotted, with credible, well-rounded characters that fit well into the milieu of Restoration England. Both of them are sucked into events stranger and more dangerous than they could ever have envisaged. The lives of Marwood and Cat move ever closer, unwittingly linked by the fanatical, millennial beliefs of their fathers.
Paul’s in the fire, and then James accompanies his employer to visit her former home, to investigate the murder of one of the servants of the house, whose body was found in the burned out St Paul’s. The paths of Cat and James had met when she steals his cloak whilst they both watch the destruction of St. She is to be married off to an old roué, much to her disgust, and when she is raped by the son of the family, and she takes her violent revenge, she escapes from their clutches. In a parallel story, Cat Lovett is a young heiress forced to live with distant relations in their rambling house in Holborn after the disgrace of her father, a hunted regicide. James’s father, a printer, was a convicted Fifth Monarchist, who had been imprisoned for participating in Thomas Venner’s 1661 uprising, but is now entering senility. James Marwood, the narrator, who works as an underling reporter for Joseph Williamson, who in turn is in the employ of the Earl of Arlington, is despatched to discover what the feelings on the streets are amongst the populace about the conflagration.
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