Alice Dugdale
Alice Dugdale
In the quiet village of Highbury, Alice Dugdale has built her life around a single certainty: her steady, unremarkable beau. Their future together seems as settled as the church spire against the grey Yorkshire sky. But when a local noble family casts their eye upon her beloved, Alice discovers that love in the English countryside is never quite as simple as it seems. Trollope, with his characteristic precision, maps the small devastations that follow: the quiet cruelties of class, the economics hidden beneath romantic devotion, and the peculiar dignity of a woman watching her future slip from her grasp. This is Trollope at his most tender, writing not of grand passions but of the ordinary griefs that shape ordinary lives.
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