Mary Powell & Deborah’s Diary

On her seventeenth birthday, Mary Powell is thwarted in her attempt to learn the colour of her future husband’s eyes. Days later, her runaway ride brings her face to face with a handsome stranger—and the man her father owes five hundred pounds.

It is 1643, and the King’s officers in Oxford are making demands on the Powells’ poultry yard while Mary’s parents struggle with debt and divided loyalties. In her lively, candid journal, Mary records family squabbles, country visits and her own uncertain thoughts about love and marriage. Then she meets John Milton: a grave, scholarly poet, a friend of her cousin’s, and her father’s creditor. Mary is more drawn to conversation and romances than to his learned verses—but can she remain indifferent to the man who holds her family’s future in his hands?

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