The Jewel

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.