Rachel Fleckring is companion to the elderly Mrs. Maldon in Bursley when money kept in the house disappears in the night. Rachel has fallen for Mrs. Maldon’s charming, idle grand-nephew Louis Fores, and as the theories of the theft multiply, her marriage becomes a slow discovery of what kind of man she has chosen.
A sharply observed Five Towns novel about money and marriage from the author of Clayhanger. Download the free EPUB.