ISBN:
9780425155295
Release Date:
19 Mar 1997
Average rating:
(read by 7 members)
Categories:
Modern fiction
For twenty years, Anna Bouverie has been the dutiful wife of a village rector, scraping by on his pitiful salary, making cakes for the church bake sales, ironing (badly) her husband's surplices, and clothing herself and her children in parishioners' hand-me-downs. But when an expected promotion to archdeacon falls through, her husband retreats into bitterness. Anna, faced by isolation, the lost hope of a better life, and the bullying of her daughter at school, finally rebels. She takes a job in a supermarket, earning money, a sense of her own worth, the disapproval of the parish, and the icy fury of her husband. At the same time she is observed with passionate interest by three men, each of whom plays a role in the part-tragic, part-triumphant blossoming of her life.
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