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A perfect explanation / Eleanor Anstruther.
Enid Campbell, granddaughter of a duke, grew up surrounded by servants, wanting for nothing except love. But when her brother died in the First World War, a new heir was needed, and it was up to Enid to provide it. A troubled marriage and three children soon followed. Broken by postpartum depression, overwhelmed by motherhood and a loveless marriage, Enid made the shocking decision to abandon her family, thereby starting a chain of events—a kidnapping, a court case, and selling her son to her sister for £500—that reverberated through the generations. Interweaving one significant day in 1964, when it seems the family will reunite for one last time, with a decade during the interwar period, A Perfect Explanation explores the perils of aristocratic privilege, where inheritance is everything and happiness is hard won.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780358120858
- ISBN: 0358120853
- Physical Description: 312 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2019
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| Subject: | Campbell, Enid, 1892-1964 > Fiction. Argyllshire (Scotland) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. |
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- 12 of 12 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Henry County Library System.
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