Alex Clare, born into a comfortable London family in the late Victorian years, is clumsy, intense and never quite says the right thing. Through convent school in Belgium, a London season, an engagement and a search for a place in religious life, the novel traces how a girl unsuited to the one career open to her is pushed from one consequence to the next.
Delafield’s sharp and moving 1919 debut, long before Diary of a Provincial Lady, and a striking study of loneliness. Download the free EPUB.