Anna Bouverie is the Rector's Wife. She irons his surplices (badly); delivers the parish newsletter; scrimps to get by on the pittance the church pays while keeping up appearances for the gossipy villagers. She rarely complains and rarely rebels. But now-- as she watches her children do without, as her husband withdraws further into his work, and her frustrations mounts into fury--Anna comes to realize that she will do whatever it takes to save herself. From the acclaimed author of a Village Affair comes "an uncommonly well-written exposition of a marriage worn threadbare by the grind of daily living and unfulfilled expectation," in which "every nuance of parish social life is dead-on perfect, every shading of character exact"

ISBN: 9780425170557