The doctor Calder Brock takes Hester in and treats her wounds and nurses her back to health. On the way she is run over by the horse and cart of a doctor and injured quite badly. She is forced to live with their gardener Jacob and his wife Meg (whom Hester calls ‘Auntie’ and ‘Uncle’.ĭesperate to make a better life for herself she heads out one day to meet her cousin who she believes is the key to a better life. We meet our protagonist Hester White who having been previously fairly well off and well educated finds herself falling on extremely hard time after the deaths of her parents. Like super great.įor a kick off it’s Georgian, it’s dark, it’s gritty, it’s grim. Alright, alright I would’ve luh-huvved an actual proof but I’ll take a great book in whatever form I can. So I was absolutely thrilled to be approved to review this via Netgalley. I saw so many people posting beautiful pictures of stunning velvety proofs of this book and immediately got book envy.
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