Seventeen-year-old Hester Thornton is home at the Grange, watchful over her golden-haired younger sister Nan, when the family’s world shifts with a stepmother and new acquaintances. Friendship, pride and a broken promise test the girls, while their friend Annie gets into trouble over a diamond ring and the round of country pleasures leads to a fancy ball.
A characteristic late-Victorian girls’ novel by one of the era’s most prolific writers for young women. Download the free EPUB.