Darling Deborah

Altrincham Garrick Society

She was the humble servant girl who bewitched one of the most powerful men in England. Darling Deborah tells the passionate story of the affair between the great diarist, Samuel Pepys, and Deborah Willet, his wife's personal maid. The affair was recorded day by day by Pepys in his secret shorthand, an account he may have thought would never see the light of day. But it did. And as the pages of the diary are turned by the Victorian scholar who transcribed them, the affair lives again, as the Great Fire of London rages outside the window.