Spoils of Poynton
Mrs. Gereth has devoted her life to assembling beauty. Poynton, the house she filled with tapestries, porcelain, and furniture, is her masterpiece, a testament to taste and refinement. When her son Owen announces his engagement to Mona Brigstock, a young woman Mrs. Gereth considers utterly devoid of aesthetic sensibility, she faces an unbearable prospect: watching her carefully curated world fall into hands that will never understand it. Fleda Vetch, a perceptive young woman caught between Mrs. Gereth's passionate convictions and Owen's bewildered devotion, becomes the unlikely lens through which this quiet catastrophe unfolds. James writes with surgical precision about the way aesthetic obsession can become a form of cruelty, and how taste itself can mask deeper hungers. This is a novel for anyone who has ever loved something so much they could not bear to share it.
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