The true heart

Warner, Sylvia Townsend

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Sukey Bond, on graduating from a late Victorian orphanage, is sent to work as a maid on a farm on the Essex Coast. After she falls in love with her mistresses son, Eric, she is fired and Eric sent away. Sukey sets off on an adventure to liberate Eric.

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Publish Date: 25/02/2021

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‘The kind of novelist who inspires an intense sense of ownership in her fans … her sympathies tended naturally to the marginal, the vulnerable, the exploited, the obscure’ Sarah Waters

Sukey Bond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, is sent to work as a servant at a farm on the remote Essex Marshes. There she falls in love with gentle, unworldly Eric, the son of the rector’s wife, only for them to be separated when their relationship is discovered. But nothing will deter Sukey in her quest to be reunited with her true love, even if it means seeking the help of Queen Victoria herself.

‘One of our most idiosyncratic, courageous and versatile writers’ Hermione Lee

‘One can’t be too thankful that Miss Townsend Warner has lived to discover the alchemist’s secret of transmuting the past into pure gold’ Hilary Spurling

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Weight 157 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 12 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

304

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

823.914 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K