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in the, in the 1840s.

And it's what happens when basically there's a character called Sir Louis Thornberry.

When he dies, he has two adult daughters from his first marriage, but he, just before he dies, a year before he dies, he decides to get married again, falls in love, and marries a much younger woman.

And the book, that's the premise of the book, of where it is.

So Paula came up with this fantastic idea to send out to the, to people, to, like Gerry, the book buyers, and the media, to, a k- a will, basically.

Mm.

Mm.

Um, but if, you know, so they could probably make decisions about evictions easier and stuff like that.

But if, if, as in the case of The Expectation, the family who live there on the estate, I mean, the amount of hatred that they would t- uh, and, and death threats and everything that they had to live with while their own lives were falling apart.

So that's kind of like the premise of, of this novel and w- and, and where, where we're going with it.

But what I actually thought was fascinating, and this came a little bit 'cause the part of my novel, The House, was set in the famine, and I remember thinking when there was so many debts, how, how did, uh, a- and, and the breakdown of society, and the breakdown of law and order, it was kind of, it was the perfect setting, really.

Who's going to miss o- one person when there was-

Yeah.

And, uh, particularly with entailed estates, which I knew a certain amount about, but the actual legalities, just to explain to your listeners, an entailed, if, I'm sure many of them know, but an entailed estate is, um, a, a, like a country estate that actually goes through the generations.

dim view taken.

Yes, absolutely.

Yeah, no, there were furores because obviously Victoria and Albert lived their life a certain way and they had a huge expectation on their son and heir.

um and he was um a huge disappointment to them but i think what happened then was albert was sent out he came back to cambridge prince albert and his father came to to um to kind of straighten him out and they went for a walk in a really bad day um and his father then victoria's husband albert he he um he got ill two weeks later and died now he had underlying in And I can't imagine that, you know, I don't think historians believe that the walk in the rain with his son to straighten him out killed him.

But I suppose the important thing was Victoria believed that.

She really believed that.

She did believe that.

And the similarities between Bertie and Edward gets strong at this point, doesn't it? Yes,