After years abroad, Constance van der Welcke returns to The Hague with her husband and young son Addie, hoping to be received again by the large, quarrelsome Van Lowe family she left under a cloud. Brothers, sisters and in-laws gather round dinner tables and drawing rooms, and every courtesy hides a grudge.
The opening volume of the Dutch master’s family cycle, in Alexander Teixeira de Mattos’s English translation. Download the free EPUB.