Betty Desmond is sewing shirts for the parish poor when Eustace Vernon, a painter who collects flirtations, wanders into her stepfather’s village. A stolen meeting gets her packed off to an aunt, and soon she is in Paris and the artists’ village of Grez, studying art and finding that Vernon, an honest rival and a worldly Lady St. Craye all complicate her heart.
A witty adult novel from the author of The Railway Children, showing a side of Nesbit few readers know. Download the free EPUB.