In the stucco villas of Camberwell, Nancy Lord, a self-willed young woman, chafes against her father’s strictness and the narrow life around her. On Jubilee night she slips into the crowds and into a secret affair with the charming, drifting Lionel Tarrant, while her neighbours, the Peacheys and the French sisters, wrestle with money, marriage and modern education.
One of Gissing’s most acute studies of class, women and suburban ambition. Download the free EPUB.