Lady Audley's secret vs Man and Wife: Which Should You Read?

Lady Audley's secret Mary Elizabeth Braddon · 1862 ★★★★☆ 3.8 164 pages · ≈ 3 h 02 m · Challenging

Lady Audley’s Secret was the most successful of a long series of novels written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon in what was then called the “sensation” genre because of the inventive and slightly scandalous plots of such…

Man and Wife Wilkie Collins · 1870 ★★★★☆ 3.9 423 pages · ≈ 7 h 50 m · Challenging

On a summer's morning, between thirty and forty years ago, two girls were crying bitterly in the cabin of an East Indian passenger ship, bound outward, from Gravesend to Bombay.