The Ladies of Lyndon

The novel follows the lives of a number of women connected with the country estate of Lyndon in the years leading up to and during the First World War. Encouraged by her mother Agatha marries the owner Sir John Clewer after a brief affair with her cousin, the doctor, Gerald Blair. When he returns after sometime away it reawakens her passions. Meanwhile Sir John's younger brother James marries one of the maids.

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