IT TAKES A BAD WOMAN TO MAKE A BAD MAN, the saying goes. Though Queen Victoria's affair with John Brown raises barely an eyebrow, it's a different story for her working-class subjects. In Scotland, Bella and Isa each discover the harsh realities of loss and single parenthood. Like Victoria, the supposed moral compass of the nation, they risk their reputations to survive tragedy and retain their sanity, only their efforts are met with public censure and humiliation. The fates of all three share uncanny parallels, yet posterity will brand one of them A BAD WOMAN. But then nothing is ever as it...
IT TAKES A BAD WOMAN TO MAKE A BAD MAN, the saying goes. Though Queen Victoria's affair with John Brown raises barely an eyebrow, it's a different sto...
It's the swinging sixties, and Kelton MacLeod is on a year's scholarship at Aberdeen University. When local girl Carol falls for his easy American charm, she abandons family, friends and her fiance to run off with Kelton to St Louis, Missouri. Smooth as silk, slippery as soap, he is driven by boundless ambition. But too late, Carol discovers she has sacrificed everything for a psychopathic womaniser. Astounding business acumen propels Kelton's career in corporate pharmaceuticals, while his lies and manipulation make him the husband - and the boss - from hell. Yet what goes around comes around...
It's the swinging sixties, and Kelton MacLeod is on a year's scholarship at Aberdeen University. When local girl Carol falls for his easy American cha...
