The Story
Prudence Dudley was a woman who appeared to have everything: an undeniably attractive woman who had already achieved considerable success as a novelist. Yet she remained at odds with life. It all stemmed from the past: her sad rejected childhood and the more recent past of a deeply wounding emotional crisis. Nearing a breakdown, she needed to sort herself out; and since nobody had ever proved so staunch and comforting a support in time of trouble as her Aunt Maggie, she fled to her company to spend three months at a rented cottage in the Lake District. They encountered David Bernard Michael McVeigh, later to be revealed as the owner of the cottage and what little else remained of the rundown Lowtherbeck estate. His aggressive and overbearing manner offended Pru from the start, but in time she learned that this iron fa
Description
Prudence Dudley was a woman who appeared to have everything: an undeniably attractive woman who had already achieved considerable success as a novelist. Yet she remained at odds with life. It all stemmed from the past: her sad rejected childhood and the more recent past of a deeply wounding emotional crisis. Nearing a breakdown, she needed to sort herself out; and since nobody had ever proved so staunch and comforting a support in time of trouble as her Aunt Maggie, she fled to her company to spend three months at a rented cottage in the Lake District. They encountered David Bernard Michael McVeigh, later to be revealed as the owner of the cottage and what little else remained of the rundown Lowtherbeck estate. His aggressive and overbearing manner offended Pru from the start, but in time she learned that this iron fa
