On the flat marshes between the Royal Military Canal and the Channel, Joanna Godden inherits her father’s farm and astonishes her neighbours by running it herself. Bold, vain, generous and stubborn, she breeds sheep, quarrels with men, raises her younger sister Ellen as a lady, and learns at painful cost that she cannot manage love as she manages land.
A vivid 1921 portrait of an independent woman and of Romney Marsh, for readers of Hardy and Mary Webb. Download the free EPUB.