A young woman sets down her own story, promising to deal fairly with everyone in it. It begins with an arrival, a thief in the night and a father whose secret life is recorded in a little black book, and carries her into London society, balls and an uncertain love, shadowed throughout by her family’s past.
Le Fanu’s last novel, a quiet, unsettling study of a woman’s life by the author of Uncle Silas. Download the free EPUB.