The Virtuous Woman: A Novel - Tapa blanda

Full of fantastically gritty metaphors, and with strains of class and race stretching like a fragile elastic band... a book that will change your dreams if not your life. (OBSERVER)An exquisitely realised piece of writing. (Elizabeth Buchan, MAIL ON SUNDAY) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. The story of a relationship between a carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life.