Description
In the quiet English town of Prior’s Ash, the Godolphin family’s fortunes are bound to an ancestral estate called Ashlydyat—so tightly, in fact, that a local superstition claims the family will fall into ruin if the house is not properly inhabited. When Sir George Godolphin’s illness and desire to return to Ashlydyat upend the lives of those around him, Isabel and the people of the town are drawn into a web of inheritance, displacement, and financial catastrophe. As the estate’s shadow lengthens, the novel explores how duty, class, and belief can shape— and sometimes destroy—both private lives and entire communities. With the brisk, morally observant storytelling for which Mrs. Henry Wood is known, this late-Victorian drama blends domestic stakes with social consequence, asking what it truly means to survive when the past refuses to let go.
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paperback
Alan Sutton
Published Jan 1, 1994
496 pages
ISBN: 9780750906869
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First Published
1898
Language
eng
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