Marlford

Marlford

by JacquelineYallop (Author)

Synopsis

Ellie Barton has spent her young life living in the dilapidated manor house with her elderly father. Her duty is to her aristocratic lineage, something of which she is often reminded by those few people around her. But Marlford, the local village founded by her grandfather, is in decay - subsidence from the old salt mines is destroying the buildings, the books in the memorial library are mouldering, and old loyalties and assumptions are shifting. When two idealistic young men decide to squat in the closed wing of the house, they show her a world much wider than Marlford, and Ellie begins to feel trapped beneath the unbearable weight of history and expectation.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: Main
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 06 Mar 2014

ISBN 10: 0857891057
ISBN 13: 9780857891051
Book Overview: From the critically acclaimed author Jacqueline Yallop comes a deep, beautiful novel of a young girl who finds that there are two edges to love: that which damages, and that which sets you free

Author Bio
Jacqueline Yallop read English at Oxford and did her PhD in nineteenth-century literature at the University of Sheffield. She has worked as the curator of the Ruskin Collection in Sheffield and is the author of the non-fiction work Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves and the novels Kissing Alice and Obedience. She currently lives in France.