![]() Once she becomes widowed, Cora is able to follow her passion for natural science, and she moves out of London to Essex. The lack of intimacy in the marriage is indicated by the fact they had only one child, Francis, and that he is an unusual boy (for Cora “nothing shamed her as much as her son”), who is almost certainly autistic. ![]() Will is happily married to Stella and they have three children, while Cora is happily widowed! It seems hers was a fairly loveless marriage in which she felt constrained and imprisoned and her husband appears to have been somewhat older than her. The central dynamic of the plot is the relationship between Cora Seaborne, a woman approximately in her late 30s, who at the start of the novel is newly widowed, and William (Will) Ransome, the local minister. The book is set mostly in the fictional Essex village of Aldwinter in the 1890s and the action takes place over the course of a year. I was very keen to read it but it seemed to take a long time to be issued in paperback, so I’ve been hanging on for a while. ![]() It became a bestseller, was shortlisted for the 2016 Costa Novel Award and was the Waterstones Book of the Year. ![]() This book was everywhere when it first came out last year, surprising since it was written by a little known author and published by a relatively small independent publisher. ![]()
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