Decadent Divorce FD25 For more stories centred on

For more stories centred on family life

called it 'one of the ten books I couldn't live without

of the powerful and the people

Set in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast at the end of the nineteenth century

both sides feared that the end of the world was nigh

Decadent Divorce FD25 For more stories centred onOn Thursday 11 January 1883, the new Royal Courts of Justice opened its doors for business. From that day forward a stream of dissatisfied spouses from all over the country passed through with their tales of marital woe. Their desperate attempts to prove their partners marital crimes to judge and jury unwittingly became something of a spectator sport; the most sensational, instructive or noteworthy stories were reported daily in copious detail by