Emma Downes is a widow of impeccable respectability in an American industrial town, devoted to her church and to her son Philip, whom she has sent as a missionary to East Africa. When he comes home broken in health and doubt, mother and son struggle over his faith, his marriage and his right to his own life.
The last of Bromfield’s four linked novels on escape, from the author of the Pulitzer-winning Early Autumn. Download the free EPUB.