PAPERBACK EDITION. CREASES TO SPINE AND MARK ON FRONT COVER
"Bridget Malwyn, the illegitimate daughter of a wild Irish peer, is brought to live amongst the decaying splendours of his castle in County Galway, until his death in her sixteenth year. When his puritanical successor turns her out penniless, she is forced to work in a draper's shop in Bedfordshire.
"The restrictions and humiliations of her new status gives Bridget an exaggerated sense of the value of the life she has left, and she is determined - with an intensity that later betrays here - to recapture the spirit and status of her early years."