Three sisters, bound by a remote English moor and a cryptic family history, wait for a change that may never come.
In a quiet village, Mary, Gwendolen, and Alice sit in a dim dining room behind a yellow blind, their lives paused in a state of sultry stillness. The house itself seems to breathe around them, its creaks and smells shaping the nerves of the three siblings as they endure a night that feels charged with fate. A new doctor arrives in the night, stirring undercurrents of longing, duty, and the pull to break free from a constraining home.
- Explore a tense, intimate portrait of sibling bond and unspoken desires.
- Follow a family’s struggle with isolation, tradition, and the lure of new possibilities.
- Meet a cast of characters whose quiet decisions shape their futures.
- Experience a mood-driven, atmospheric narrative set on a windy Moor and in a secluded vicarage.
Ideal for readers who enjoy character-driven fiction, moody landscapes, and stories where quiet paths to change carry real weight.
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NoETH of east, in the bottom, where the road drops from the High Moor, is the village of Garth in Garthdale. It crouches there with a crook of the dale behind and before it, between half-shut doors of the west and south. Under the mystery and terror of its solitude it crouches, like a beaten thing, cowering from its topmost roof to the bowed back of its stone bridge. It is the last village up Garthdale; a handful of gray houses, old and small and humble. The high road casts them off and they turn their backs to it in their fear and huddle together, humbly, down by the beck. Their stone roofs and walls are naked and blackened by wind and rain as if fire had passed over them. They have the silence, the darkness and the secrecy of all ultimate habitations. North, where the high road begins to rise again, the Vicarage stands all alone. It turns its face toward the village, old and gray and humble as any house there, and looks on the road sideways, through the small shy window of its gable end. It has a strip of garden in front and on its farther side and a strip of orchard at the back. The garden slopes down to the churchyard, and a lane, leading to the pastures, runs between.
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It is the last village up Garthdale; a handful of gray houses old and small and humble. The high road casts them off and they turn their backs to it in their fear and huddle together humbly down by the beck. Their stone roofs and walls are naked and blackened by wind and rain as if fire had passed over them.
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Paperback. Etat : New. Print on Demand. This book tells the story of three sisters whose father is the Vicar of Garth, a small and isolated village in the North of England. The sisters, Mary, Gwendolen, and Alice, are all intelligent and ambitious women, but they are trapped in a life of poverty and boredom. Mary is a talented artist, but she is forced to give up her dreams of becoming a painter in order to care for her father and sisters. Gwendolen is a brilliant scholar, but she is denied the opportunity to go to university because she is a woman. Alice is a beautiful and passionate woman, but she is stifled by the strictures of her upbringing. The sisters' lives are thrown into turmoil when their father decides to move the family to a remote moorland village. The sisters are horrified at the prospect of living in such a desolate place, but they are powerless to stop their father. The move to the moorland village has a profound impact on the sisters' lives. Mary finds solace in her painting, Gwendolen discovers a new sense of freedom, and Alice falls in love with a young doctor. However, the sisters' newfound happiness is short-lived. Their father becomes increasingly tyrannical, and he forbids them from seeing their friends or pursuing their interests. The sisters are eventually forced to make a choice between their own happiness and their duty to their father. This book is a powerful and moving story about the lives of women in the Victorian era. The author paints a vivid picture of the stifling social conventions that governed women's lives, and she explores the complex and often contradictory emotions that women experienced in this period. The novel is also a celebration of the indomitable spirit of women, and it shows how they can overcome adversity to achieve their dreams. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781332785308_0
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