Meredith: 1224 books

An excursion beyond the immediate suburbs of London, projected long before his pony-carriage was hired to conduct him, in fact ever since his retirement from active service, led General Ople across a famous common, with which he fell in love at once, to a lofty highway along the borders of a park, for...

Excerpt: "My plain story is of two Kentish damsels, and runs from a home of flowers into regions where flowers are few and sickly, on to where the flowers which breathe sweet breath have been proved in mortal fire."(Goodreads)

The story of a gentleman who becomes a criminal against his will and takes to the open road to escape from the results of his crime.

After breaking off an abusive relationship with her fiance, Tessa Morgan hoped for a fresh start in Cornwall: a new job, a new home, a new place, far from London, where she experienced such unhappiness. Emmeline Dolan, the elderly lady who was to be her new employer seemed both eccentric and kind,...