In the old red-brick houses and ivied gardens of Kensington, Dolly Vanborough grows up with her brother George and her aunt, among neighbours, cousins and suitors. The novel follows her girlhood and growing affections, the choices of love and duty, and the quiet joys and sorrows of a vanished corner of London.
A gentle, luminous Victorian novel by Thackeray’s daughter, full of feeling for place and memory. Download the free EPUB.