Anna Tellwright, daughter of a tyrannical, miserly father in the Staffordshire Potteries, learns on her twenty-first birthday that she has inherited a fortune she is not allowed to control. Courted by the prosperous manufacturer Henry Mynors and drawn to the struggling Willie Price, she tries to follow her conscience in a world of Methodist revivals and pot-banks.
Bennett’s first major novel of the Five Towns, a quiet and moving portrait of a woman’s choices. Download the free EPUB.