| In lush and vivid detail, this beautifullywritten novel evokes an England and anage in which old traditions were beingchallenged by new ideas. Set in thehauntingly beautiful nineteenth-centuryDorset countryside, this moving story oflove--and of the suffering that lovesometimes brings--weaves together thelives of four young people, all in theirown ways rebelling against the rigidconventions and hypocrisy of the era:Richard Webster, a handsome clergy-man bent on reform; Laura Delaford,the beautiful but naive young womanwhom he marries; Samuel Delaford,Laura s unprincipled younger brother;and Rachel Cooper, the innocent butsensuous farm milkmaid in love withSamuel. Their struggles bring these fourtogether in often unexpected and alwaysunforgettable ways. |
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