Little Robin is born to a pretty, frivolous young widow called Feather who has no idea what to do with her. Neglected in a fashionable Mayfair house, she grows up under the remote, watchful protection of the Marquis of Coombe, a worldly peer whose motives everyone misreads, as the old society of London drifts toward the First World War.
A late, ambitious novel by the author of The Secret Garden, continued in Robin. Download the free EPUB.