On the eve of her twenty-first birthday Carlotta Peel, raised by a strict aunt in the Potteries, hears the great pianist Diaz play and goes to him that same night. The novel follows her in three episodes as she becomes a successful novelist, lives through love affairs in London and Paris, and meets Diaz again when his fame has turned to ruin.
A frank, passionate novel of 1905 told in a woman’s voice, unusual among Bennett’s work. Download the free EPUB.