![]() ![]() " I have read most of Joanna Trollope's books, this is a favorite. " I usually like her books, but this was not one of my favorites. Easy to read, probably quite forgettable. She makes her characters live in the minds of most readers. " A very honest and sympathetic story of the reality of life as a rector's wife. " bathtub book #3, read first chapter " - Jlms, ![]() Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.The book did not disappoint - in fact it clarified several plot points and fleshed out many of the characters." "I wanted to read this book because I had viewed a wonderfully produced version of the book on TV. She takes a job in a supermarket, earning money and a sense of her own worth, along the disapproval of the parish and the icy fury of her husband.Īt the same time, she is observed with passionate interest by three men, each of whom plays a role in the part-tragic, part-triumphant blossoming of her life. ![]() But when an expected promotion to archdeacon falls through, her husband retreats into bitterness.įaced with isolation, the lost hope of a better life, and the bullying of her daughter at school, Anna finally rebels. For twenty years, Anna Bouverie has been the dutiful wife of a village rector, scraping by on his pitiful salary, making cakes for the church bake sales, ironing her husband’s surplices, and clothing herself and her children in hand-me-downs. ![]()
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