Set in the Pennine country before the mills swallowed its valleys, the novel begins in the manufacturing town of Shayton, with its rough manners and customs, a grandmother and grandson, the parsonage, and Isaac Ogden’s backsliding. It then moves to the hall of Wenderholme, where impoverished gentry, new money and a volunteer regiment encamped in the park bring old and new England face to face.
A thoughtful regional novel by the art critic and author of The Intellectual Life. Download the free EPUB.