John Fowles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fowles) offers us an immaculate recreation of Victorian England entwined with a tale of passion and obsession in this novel of 1969.
This story is familiar as it was brought to the screen in a brilliant film adaptation of 1981 with Meryl Streep as Sarah Woodruff and Jeremy Irons as Charles Henry Smithson. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082416/?ref_=sr_1). Available on DVD (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-French-Lieutenants-Woman-DVD/dp/B00005UQVT/ref=pd_sim_b_2)
It’s still very much worth while reading the novel. The prose of John Fowles is beautifully crafted.
480 pages in Vintage Classics paperback edition.
ISBN 978-0099478331
John Fowles