Nightingale Wood

Stella Gibbons

first published 1938 Penguin Books, 2010 387 pages

Virago modern classics — book 539

Poor, lovely Viola has been left penniless and alone after her late husband's demise, and is forced to live with his family in their joyless home. Its occupants are nearly insufferable: Mr. Withers is a tyrannical old miser; Mrs. Withers dismisses her as a common shop girl; and Viola's sisters-in-law, Madge and Tina, are too preoccupied with their own troubles to give her much thought. Only the prospect of the upcomi...

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Nightingale Wood edition · 2011 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 400 pages · 9780748127535
Nightingale Wood edition · 2010 · Penguin Books · 387 pages · 9780143117575
Nightingale Wood edition · 2009 · Virago · 387 pages · 9781844085729
Nightingale Wood edition · 2009 · Windsor/Paragon · 495 pages · 9781408459027
Nightingale Wood edition · 1972 · Lythway Press Ltd · 418 pages

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