The head of a large and prosperous family walks for no apparent
reason into the path of an advancing express train; a disgraced
Royal Navy officer and his heiress wife fail to make their fortune
in 1870s South Carolina; a young girl, abused by her stepfather,
grows up looking for love and someone she can trust; a modern young
vicar with a relish for progress marries into a family still
clinging to their Victorian certainties; Charlie Chaplin roams the
mean streets of south London, while in Oxford William Morris
destroys the life of an innocent young bluestocking; young soldiers
go to war and are never seen again. This is an engrossing tale of a
family that insists on correct behaviour and the avoidance of
unpleasantness, even if the truth of their lives is often somewhat
different. The story takes us from the height of Victorian power
and confidence, through the social and technological upheavals of
the early twentieth century, and into the First World War. At the
heart of the story are three women: sisters Nell and Mary
Harriette, one living life to the full and the other wishing she
could, and Nell's daughter Frances, who exchanges the
unpredictability of life with her mother for the only too
predictable world of her aunt back in England. The novel follows
them and the people they love as each one navigates the narrow path
between family expectation and private happiness.
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