A Perfect Explanation
By (Author) Eleanor Anstruther
Thorndike Press
Thorndike Press
9th June 2021
Large Print Edition
United States
General
Fiction
Contemporary lifestyle fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Historical fiction
First World War
Hardback
379
Width 137mm, Height 216mm
Enid Campbell, granddaughter of a duke, grew up surrounded by servants, wanting for nothing except love. But when her brother died in the First World War, a new heir was needed, and it was up to Enid to provide it. A troubled marriage and three children soon followed. Broken by postpartum depression, overwhelmed by motherhood and a loveless marriage, Enid made the decision to abandon her family, thereby starting a chain of events a kidnap, a court case, and selling her son to her sister for 500 that reverberated through the generations. A Perfect Explanation explores the perils of aristocratic privilege, where inheritance is everything and happiness is hard won.