On the day her father dies, Lucy Entwhistle meets Everard Wemyss, a man whose wife Vera has just died in a fall from a window. Grief draws them together and they marry quickly, but at the house called The Willows, among Vera’s books and rooms, Lucy begins to learn what Vera’s marriage was like.
Von Arnim’s darkest novel, a study of domestic tyranny often compared with Rebecca. Download the free EPUB.