Leonora Stanway, wife of a Bursley earthenware manufacturer, walks through the market-place with haughty grace while her husband’s affairs quietly slide toward disaster. With three daughters on the edge of womanhood and a man from her past returning from America, she faces at forty the question of what her own life might still hold.
An early Five Towns novel that shows Bennett’s sympathy for women in the Potteries. Download the free EPUB.