Muriel Hammond grows up in the small Yorkshire town of Marshington, where a girl’s only career is finding a husband. From a children’s party in 1900 through dances, disappointments and the upheaval of the First World War, she watches friends marry and sisters rebel, and slowly begins to ask whether her life might belong to herself.
Holtby’s second novel, an acute study of women’s lives in the years before and during the Great War, by the author of South Riding. Download the free EPUB.