Isabel Sleaford, a dreamy girl raised on novels and poetry, marries George Gilbert, a kind, plain country doctor, and soon finds life in their village dreary. When she meets the wealthy, cultivated Roland Lansdell, a man who seems to have stepped out of her books, she is drawn into an emotional entanglement that threatens everyone involved.
Braddon’s English reworking of Madame Bovary, and one of her most thoughtful novels. Download the free EPUB.