By D. J. Taylor
Because the shadows extend over the June grass, all England is heading for Epsom Downs - excessive existence and occasional existence, society beauties and Whitechapel highway women, bookmakers and gypsies, hawkers and acrobats, punters and thieves. complete households flow alongside the Surrey back-roads, in the direction of the best race of the 12 months. Hopes are excessive, nerves are taut, hats are tossed within the air - this can be Derby Day.
For months humans were ready and plotting for at the present time. Even in darkish November, while the wind whistles in the course of the foggy London courts, the alehouses and gentlemen's golf equipment echo to the sound of disputed odds. In Belgrave sq. previous Mr Gresham is baffled via his tigerish daughter Rebecca, whose intentions he can't fathom. within the golf equipment of St James's rakish Mr Happerton performs billiards together with his crony Captain Raff, whereas in darkest Lincolnshire unhappy Mr Davenant broods over his monetary embarrassments and waits for his daughter's new governess. around the channel the veteran burglar Mr Pardew is packing his luggage to come, to the consternation of the stalwart detective Captain McTurk. far and wide funds jingles and plans are laid. Uniting all of them is the champion horse Tiberius, on whose functionality part a dozen destinies depend.
In this wealthy and exuberant novel, rife with the idioms of Victorian England, the mysteries pile excessive, propelling us in the direction of the day of the nice race, and we wait with bated breath because the tale gallops to a end that not anyone expects.
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