John Norton, a wealthy, scholarly Catholic squire near Henfield in Sussex, is drawn to the monastic life and to old books far more than to his mother’s plans for his marriage. When she brings the gentle Kitty Hare into the household, he begins against his principles to court her, until a sudden event changes everything.
An early naturalist novel from the author of Esther Waters; it deals frankly with sexual violence. Download the free EPUB.