Two stories run side by side. Little Lizarann Coupland walks the streets with her father Jim as he sells matches, and the novelist Alfred Challis, visiting Royd Hall, is drawn to the dazzling Judith Arkroyd while bound to an impossible wife. De Morgan follows both lives through comedy and sorrow with Dickensian generosity.
A big, warm-hearted novel by the potter who became a best-selling novelist in his sixties. Download the free EPUB.