'It is elegant and flexible, most fluently expressing every shade of human emotion' SUSAN HILL
'A novel to rival George Eliot or Jane Austen' THE TIMES
'The most exquisitely written, delicate, passionately felt and haunting book' ELIZABETH BUCHAN
Dedmayne Rectory is quietly decaying, its striped chintz and darkened rooms are a bastion of outmoded Victorian values. Here Mary has spent thirty-five years, devoting herself to her sister, now dead, and to her father, Canon Jocelyn. Although she is pitied by her neighbours for this muted existence, Mary is content. But when she meets Robert Herbert, Mary's ease is destroyed and years of suppressed emotion surface through her desire for him.
First published in 1924, this novel is an impressive exploration of Mary's relationship with her father, of her need for Robert and the way in which, through each, she comes to a clearer understanding of love.
- ISBN10 0860689115
- ISBN13 9780860689119
- Publish Date 10 August 1987 (first published 31 May 1973)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 March 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Virago Press Ltd
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 368
- Language English