![]() Through our Etsy page we hope to be able to pass on to like minded souls some of the treasures we find on our wanderings. A Britain where the ghosts are unquiet, where the woods are alive and where distinctions between the present, the future and the past are permeable. Stories that explore a Britain other than the one we think we know. Wyrd Britain is a blog (and Facebook page) concerned with stories in, of, from and about the stranger places of Britain. In good condition with some shelf wear and creases. So Marianne must once more venture into the unknown: to Italy and the magnificent villa of the Tuscan prince whose face no one has ever seen a villa haunted by some strange, nameless evil. Even Napoleon seems to slip away from her after his marriage to Marie-Louise of Austria. In desperation Marianne seeks someone to protect her from Francis' insane lust for revenge. ![]() But on the very night of her debut, she is terrified by a face in the audience - the scarred visage of Francis Cranmere, the husband she believed dead. In France her beauty and wit won the heart of the Emperor himself, Napoleon Bonaporte, and under his patronage she found a place high in Parisian society and a new career as an opera singer. ![]() ![]() Beautiful, dark-haired Marianne d'Asslenat fled England, leaving her dastardly husband for dead in the blazing ruins of what had been their home. ![]()
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