Hilda Lessways lives with her widowed mother in the Five Towns, hating domestic work yet doing it fiercely. Hungry for a wider life, she learns shorthand, works for the ambitious George Cannon on his newspaper, and is drawn into a relationship that will shape her fate, while her path crosses that of Edwin Clayhanger.
The second of Bennett’s Clayhanger novels, retelling events from Hilda’s side and readable on its own. Download the free EPUB.