The True Heart

Leaving her orphanage at sixteen, Sukey Bond finds employment as a servant in the remote New Easter Farm, deep within the Essex Marshes. There she falls in love with simple, gentle Eric, the son of the rector's wife. But when their relationship is discovered, they are swiftly separated. So begins Sukey's quest to be reunited, a quest that will take her through every layer of Victorian society...>

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The kind of novelist who inspires an intense sense of ownership in her fans ... though entirely without sentimentality, her sympathies tended naturally to the marginal, the vulnerable, the exploited, the obscure Sarah Waters

Product details

• Authors: Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9780241476109
• ISBN: 978-0-241-47610-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Classics, c 1870 to c 1879, South and South East England, Classic fiction: general and literary