Minnie is a woman of cheerful, relentless determination who bends landlords, relatives and suitors to her will, whatever the wreckage left behind. Holding’s early novel follows the campaigns of Minnie and the life of her quieter sister Frances through hasty marriages, money troubles and a bigamous entanglement, told with a dry eye for self-deception.
An early novel by the writer Raymond Chandler admired, showing the psychological sharpness of her later suspense fiction. Download the free EPUB.