A duty-ridden woman dreams of breaking free from her small-town chains.
New paperback edition of this powerful exploration of loneliness and desire from Margaret Laurence - often regarded as one of the greatest Canadian novelists. First published in 1966.
'Laurence remains, for many readers, the defining conscious of 20th-century Canadian literary fiction as well as a major influence on Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood. It is easy to see why ... This stylistically sophisticated narrative [is] tender and sympathetic but never sentimental'
Irish Times.
