On a hot July afternoon at Teignmouth station, a sixteen-year-old girl with dark grey eyes waits impatiently in an open carriage. Henrietta is clever, loving and used to managing everyone around her, and when her wish to shape her family’s plans comes true, Yonge shows with gentle seriousness what domineering, however well meant, can cost.
An early domestic novel from the author of The Heir of Redclyffe, rich in Victorian family life. Download the free EPUB.