Mrs Brookenham presides over a London circle famous for its daring talk, and her daughter Nanda, now old enough to sit downstairs, threatens to change everything. Old Mr Longdon, who loved Nanda’s grandmother, the attractive but hesitant Vanderbank, the wealthy Mitchy and the sheltered little Aggie all play their parts in a novel told almost entirely through conversation.
One of James’s most dramatic late novels, an exacting and witty study of manners and innocence. Download the free EPUB.