Inheritance
A Novel
Evelyn Toynton
- In
- this
- luminous
- novel
- about
- romance
- and
- illusion—and
- what's
- left
- of
- love
- when
- they're
- stripped
- away—an
- American
- Anglophile
- is
- drawn
- into
- the
- lives
- of
- a
- disintegrating
- aristocratic
- family.After
- the
- sudden
- death
- of
- her
- husband,
- Annie
- Devereaux
- flees
- to
- England,
- site
- of
- the
- nostalgic
- fantasies
- her
- father
- spun
- for
- her
- before
- he
- deserted
- the
- family.
- A
- chance
- encounter
- in
- London
- leads
- Annie
- to
- cancel
- her
- return
- to
- New
- York
- and
- move
- in
- with
- Julian,
- the
- disaffected,
- moody
- son
- of
- Helena
- Denby,
- a
- famous
- British
- geneticist.
- As
- their
- relationship
- progresses,
- Annie
- meets
- Julian's
- sisters
- Isabel
- and
- Sasha,
- each
- of
- them
- fragile
- in
- her
- own
- way,
- and
- becomes
- infatuated
- with
- visions
- of
- their
- idyllic
- childhood
- in
- England's
- West
- Country.
- But
- the
- more
- she
- uncovers
- about
- Julian's
- past,
- the
- more
- he
- explodes
- into
- rage
- and
- violence.
- Finally
- tearing
- herself
- away,
- Annie
- winds
- up
- adrift
- in
- London,
- rescued
- from
- her
- loneliness
- only
- when
- she
- and
- Isabel
- form
- an
- unexpected
- bond.Slowly,
- with
- Isabel
- as
- her
- reluctant
- guide,
- Annie
- learns
- of
- the
- emotional
- devastation
- that
- Helena's
- warped
- arrogance,
- her
- monstrous
- will
- to
- dominate,
- inflicted
- on
- her
- children.
- The
- family
- who
- once
- embodied
- Annie's
- idealized
- conception
- of
- England
- is
- actually
- caught
- in
- a
- nightmare
- of
- betrayal
- and
- guilt
- that
- spirals
- inexorably
- into tragedy.
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