The Scent of Water
of Elizabeth Goudge
Description
Mary Lindsay met her little niece and namesake only once, but she saw in the quiet, imaginative child a kindred spirit to inherit her ancient house. Fifty years later her niece inherited the house with no knowledge of it beyond her indelible childhood memories, and no experience at all of living in the country.Mary Lindsay is a born and bred Londoner who has enjoyed her city life-a prestigious job, and friends with whom she takes in the city pleasures of theatre, art andâŠAs a retired businesswoman living in a rural house inherited from her aunt finds consolation for a failed romance with a married blind man by learning more about her aunt and herself.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 285 pages
- Publisher Hodder and Stoughton
- Publication Date 1963
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780698103276
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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