Ingeborg, the mouse-coloured daughter of an English bishop, slips away to London to have a tooth out and comes home engaged to Herr Dremmel, a Lutheran pastor absorbed in agricultural experiments. Married life in a remote East Prussian parish brings her babies, loneliness and a husband who notices her mainly as a household function.
Witty and painful by turns, it is one of the best novels by the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Download the free EPUB.