title: An Unlikely Countess: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
author:  Louise Carpenter 
description: "A spirited and sensitive account of one of the strangest lives imaginable. Louise Carpenter's portrait of the life of Lily Budge is a classic of its kind: elegantly written, with a rare eye for detail and a shrewd and warm understanding of its extraordinary subject." William Boyd
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  THE LONDON TATTLERFEBRUARY 6
  
  An ugly rumor has arisen, only to be proven no rumor at all, but rather the
  unadulterated truth. It seems the proper Lord Farley has behaved in a
  decidedly improper manner...
  
  James Lindford, Viscount Farley has returned from the Orient, feted and
  celebrated...until his past catches up with him. It seems the Viscount’s randy
  ways have resulted in the juiciest scandal of the season: he has brought his
  natural-born children into his household to raise. Now, abandoned by his
  fiancée and hounded by the gossips, he has retreated to his country estate
  only to find his children more than a handful of trouble. Worse, the most
  tempting woman on earth is right next door...
  
  Phoebe Churchill’s peaceful country life, tending her cottage and rearing her
  abandoned niece, is disrupted when Viscount Farley becomes her new neighbor.
  Undoubtedly, hi