Molly Gibson is the motherless daughter of a country doctor in the little town of Hollingford, happy until her father marries the silly, self-serving widow Mrs Kirkpatrick. The match brings Molly a stepsister, the charming and secretive Cynthia, and as both girls come of age the sons of the neighbouring Hamley family, the poet Osborne and the naturalist Roger, enter their lives.
Gaskell’s warm, witty last novel, left all but finished at her death in 1865. Download the free EPUB.