The Lovels of Arden
1871
Clarissa Lovel steps off a train into an England that no longer belongs to her. Seven years abroad have done nothing to prepare her for this homecoming: the family estate of Arden Court is sold, her father's fortune has crumbled, and she arrives at a cramped cottage to learn that everything she assumed was permanent has been swept away. M.E. Braddon, the notorious author of Lady Audley's Secret, turns her forensic gaze to the quieter devastation of displacement, not the explosive crime but the slow annihilation of identity when home becomes foreign territory. Clarissa's longing for her father curdles into something more complicated as she navigates the treacherous waters of Victorian social expectations, where a woman's worth is calculated in property and connections she does not own. A train encounter with a mysterious gentleman offers a glimpse of companionship, but Braddon is too shrewd to promise rescue. This is fiction that understands how thoroughly a woman can be made to feel like a stranger in her own life, and how dangerous that estrangement can become.
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