From a baby laughing at a nursery rhyme to an old woman alone, Harriett Frean is taught by her loving parents always to behave beautifully. In a few spare chapters Sinclair traces how that single lesson leads her to give up the man she loves and to let a life quietly shrink.
A short modernist masterpiece of repression and self-sacrifice, and one of Sinclair’s most admired books. Download the free EPUB.