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Fair Prisoner

Iris Bromige

1960203 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1960
first published
  • 1960Hodder & Stoughton · 224 pages · ENG
  • 1969Pan Books · 203 pages · ENGISBN 9780330023542
  • 1973White Lion Publishers · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9780856173417
  • 1974Beagle Books · ENGISBN 9780345265555
  • 1989Severn House Pub Ltd · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9780727817563
  • 1989Ulverscroft Large Print · 416 pages · ENGISBN 9780708919897

When Sarah Dallas, for her invalid mother's sake, accepted a post as housekeeper in her uncle's house in the country in return for a home for them both, she did so with many doubts, for she could still remember the warning which her father had given her shortly before he died. "There's a mean, avaricious little soul hiding behind your Uncle Edwin's smile, my dear. He serves Mammon. Give him a wide berth." To Sarah's mother, however, a spacious home in the country, free of financial worry, seemed a wonderful exchange for their cramped home in a London suburb. This is the story of the prison Sarah found herself in; of her introduction to the Madison family who lived nearby at "Camerino", the lovely old house on Juniper Hill; and of how it became for Sarah a castle in the air, containing all the freedom and happiness from which she was debarred.

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