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Nelson and Emma

This series delves into the tumultuous lives and passionate love affair of two iconic figures who defied their stations and societal conventions. Follow their extraordinary journey from humble beginnings to the pinnacle of fame and fortune. The narratives explore themes of ambition, societal change, and the dangerous nature of forbidden love. It offers a glimpse into the lives of individuals navigating expectations and traditions during a pivotal era of history.

On a Making Tide
Tested by Fate
Breaking the Line

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  1. 1

    On a Making Tide

    The epic novel of Nelson and Emma

    • 512 pages
    • 18 hours of reading
    3.8(72)Add rating

    Horatio Nelson is our most famous military hero. His statue dominates the capital, he has adorned our currency, his last words have passed into folklore, and HMS Victory, his flagship at Trafalgar, is the centrepiece of our naval heritage. On a Making Tide and Taken at the Flood (volume 2) will tell the story of our greatest military genius and his long-running love affair with Emma Hamilton; a love that transgressed class, position and social convention and which threatened them both with ruin. Starting with Nelson¿s arrival at Chatham aged 12 to join his first ship the Raisonable (moored next to his last, the Victory) and with Emma rejecting life as a domestic servant, On a Making Tide takes their story to 1798 and the battle of the Nile, the triumphant victory which secured Nelson¿s fame. Following both his exceptional career and Emma¿s spirited progress, it is a story of talent and character overcoming tradition and expectation; of a society on the cusp of the liberal 18th and conservative 19th centuries and the fate of two people caught in the middle of the change.

    On a Making Tide
  2. 2

    Tested by Fate

    • 416 pages
    • 15 hours of reading
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    It's 1784 and Nelson is sent to the Caribbean to enforce the hated Navigation Acts. While there, he marries Fanny Nisbet. Ordered next to the Mediterranean, he engages in a string of spectacular naval battles: Cape St Vincent, Tenerife, and the Nile. The ravages of war take their physical toll on Nelson, even as he gains the fame and honor he desperately craves.

    Tested by Fate
  3. 3

    Breaking the Line

    • 368 pages
    • 13 hours of reading
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    Having evacuated the King and Queen of Naples ahead of Napoleon's advancing army, Nelson must now await developments in Sicily. In the meantime, he and Emma savor their passionate affair, and when Nelson travels back to Britain with the Hamiltons, he finds he is the toast of Europe. Finally he is given the chance he's been waiting for: off a little-known Spanish cape, called Trafalgar, he will show the world what he is made of!

    Breaking the Line