In the Netherlands of the late nineteenth century, a disputed inheritance unsettles a family of landed gentry, clergy and townsfolk, between the bustle of a market town and the stillness of a village of coronets and crosses. At the centre stands a young woman of no great position whose quiet integrity becomes the moral touchstone of the book.
Insightful Dutch domestic fiction by a writer who chose to work in English, now too little known. Download the free EPUB.