Publisher's Synopsis
Another of Angela Thirkell's classic satires on English country life in the 1930s, set in Barsetshire. Mrs Brandon, an attractive widow, finds herself at the centre of a convoluted set of relationships that seem to stem from her rich Aunt Sissie's sudden illness. Aunt Sissie lives in a mouldering pile and keeps threatening to will it all away from various relatives, if only to keep them on their toes. But at least two of these relatives would welcome the money but not the house. And Aunt Sissie's companion Miss Morris finds herself faced with the Vicar, with whom she shares an unhappy past. However, all comes right in the end, having all the satisfaction of a nice twisting plot.
