To the North

Young widow Cecilia Summers is about to embark on her second marriage to an unexciting but kind suitor. Cecilia's sister-in-law, Emmeline, is surprised and dismayed at her own attraction to a predatory rake, an affair with whom leads Emmeline to a violent and tragic act. Acclaimed Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) interweaves the two stories and gently uncovers the motives that underlie each woman's actions. A Penguin Twentieth-Century Classic.