Book description
"Eh, miss, but that be a rare young lady! She do have such
pretty coaxing ways ..."
Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father.
But when he decides to remarry, Molly's life is thrown off course by
the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There is some
solace in the shape of her new stepsister Cynthia, who is beautiful,
sophisticated and irresistible to every man she meets. Soon the girls
become close, and Molly finds herself cajoled into becoming a
go-between in Cynthia's love affairs. But in doing so, Molly risks
ruining her reputation in the gossiping village of Hollingford - and
jeopardizing everything with the man she is secretly in love with.
The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in
English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the
beginning of the First World War.
