Mary O’Neill, daughter of an ambitious man on a small island in the Irish Sea, is raised in a convent and married off to a dissolute lord for his title. Wretched in the marriage, she turns to her childhood friend Martin Conrad, an explorer, and the novel follows her struggle against her husband, her church and the divorce laws. Mary tells most of it herself.
A much-debated 1913 novel, frank for its time about marriage and divorce. Download the free EPUB.