Gentle Rosalie Vanderpoel, daughter of a New York millionaire, marries the impoverished baronet Sir Nigel Anstruthers and vanishes into his decaying estate at Stornham. Years later her younger sister Bettina, clear-eyed and formidable, sails to England to find out why the letters stopped, and sets about restoring the house, the village and her sister’s spirit.
Burnett’s long novel for adults about the transatlantic marriages of the Gilded Age, from the author of The Secret Garden. Download the free EPUB.