579 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 2003 by Penguin Books.
5 stars
(1 review)
From the author of MIDDLEMARCH and SILAS MARNER, a story of frustrated intelligence and longing, featuring the intelligent Maggie, who yearns to be loved, and her brother Tom, who is forced to study. When Maggie is cast out by Tom, she is ostracized by society, and must face the consequences of renunciation.
Subjects
- Conflict of generations -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Young women -- Fiction
- Water mills -- Fiction
- Vendetta -- Fiction
- England -- Fiction