Forced to flee Revolutionary France after the brutal guillotining of her beloved father, Isabella de Savigny arrives at Nethergate, the Suffolk house of her cousin, hoping for sympathy and succour.
Instead, as a poor relation, she is forced to live the life of a servant and suffer the casual cruelty of lady's maid Martha Pratt. When she is seduced and abandoned by the son of the house, Isabella is forced to marry Martha's brother, and her struggle to survive truly begins. However, her misery is lessened when her daughter is born, and for her sake she decides to fight back against a hostile world.
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"A typical Norah Lofts book. Told from the perspective of different narrators, all interesting characters. Late 18th century setting." — Sanna (4 out of 5 stars)
"A typical Norah Lofts book. Told from the perspective of different narrators, all interesting characters. Late 18th century setting."
" The residents of a great house in England. "
" Almost every other paragraph seems to meander away on some seemingly irrelevant topic. At fewer than three hundred pages there doesn't seem to be much space for this. "
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