Set against a background of Imperial Britain, this novel depicts life on the fringes of fashionable London in the 1880's. The author examines a `rational' marriage and the frustrations of an English `Madame Bovary'.
Set against a background of Imperial Britain, this novel depicts life on the fringes of fashionable London in the 1880's. The author examines a `rational' marriage and the frustrations of an English `Madame Bovary'.