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The duke's secret

Williams, Sue, 1959 April 2-2026

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Location	Collection	Call number	Status/Desc
NORTH RYDE	ADULT FICTION	F WILL	Arrival Pending (Set: 06 Mar 2026)
WEST RYDE	ADULT FICTION	F WILLGeneral: Historical	Onloan - Due: 18 Apr 2026

She is a young maid in a stately home; he is a dashing British army officer trapped in an unhappy marriage. The pair strike up a close friendship and, just as he's departing for war, they surrender to their passion. Years later, he returns triumphant from defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, to reunite not only with his wife and their two sons, but with the maid Mary Ann and their illegitimate daughter Elizabeth. They all have to find a way through the tangle of affairs and betrayals, especially now he's hailed as the hero of the free world with a new title: the Duke of Wellington. Two hundred years on, in Australia, a woman meets with her long-lost father and is told the family legend that they're descendants of a maid who worked for the Iron Duke. She sets out to prove once and for all whether or not this story is true, and what she discovers shocks everyone.