Spine ends & corners of book covers have a bit of light bumping and rubbing. Text pages clean & bright. Previous owner's embossed name stamp on front endpaper. Previous owner's inked name on front endpaper also. Edges of book have a bit of lightly ground-in dirt and a couple of small spots. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of light bumping & rubbing. Overall, a very good copy. --In Retreat in Good Order Jane White tells the story of Robert and Sarah Hunt, happily married, comfortably off, living in a quiet house in Kew. Childless and nearing middle age they are, they imagine, perfectly content with their lives and with each other. Then Maria, Sarah's sixteen-year-old niece, is willed upon them by a dying father and with her advent cracks begin to appear in the placid front which the Hunt's present to the world--.

General Fiction Fiction Relationships Jane White England Kew England