Through Molly, the social values and changes of early 19th-century England are brought to life in this timeless representation of human relationships. The audiobook chronicles their maturation into womanhood within the confines of the gossiping and watchful society of Hollingford.Īs Molly matures and falls in love she learns to judge people for what they are, not what they seem. Gibson is a self-absorbed, petty widow, and Molly's unhappiness is compounded by the realisation that her father has come to regret his second marriage.Īlthough Molly resents her stepmother, she befriends her new step-sister, Cynthia, who is loveable, but worldly and troubling. To Molly, any stepmother would have been a shock, but the new Mrs. Her father remarries wanting to give Molly the woman's presence he feels she lacks. Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford, lost her mother when she was a child.
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