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.