Marie has been round all the sales and is ready to furnish a home. The chapters trace what follows, in titles that tell the story: anticipation, housekeeping, disillusion, baby problems, recrimination, the banged door, drifting, intrigue and another wooing. School fees, servants and money worries are counted out in guineas.
An unsentimental look at ordinary marriage by a popular British novelist, for readers who like domestic fiction with an edge. Download the free EPUB.