Description

A luscious historical novel, The Jewel brings to glorious life the
dramatic years of Jean Armour and Robert Burns s courtship, and their
tempestuous, passionate married life, against a background simmering with
political intrigue and turmoil. Jean, a beautiful young woman with the
voice of a nightingale, set young Rab s heart aflame from the first. Jean s
father tried to protect her from the advances of the mercurial
ploughman-poet, whose roving eye was notorious. But she would not be kept
from him. Their marriage endured against all odds, its rocky course
revealing Jean s indomitable strength and character. How Jean lived with –
and frequently without – her famous husband is surely Scotland s greatest
love story.