Marjorie Pope, the clever daughter of a retired coach-builder, is half-engaged to a dull suitor when the scientist Trafford literally falls out of the sky into her family’s summer holiday. Their marriage brings money worries, a child and the lure of comfort over research, until the couple go to the wilds of Labrador to think their lives through.
One of Wells’s thoughtful novels of ideas from 1912, still sharp about love and work. Download the free EPUB.