Endeavour, free
Anna Fitzalan by
Marguerite Steen
First published in 1953 by Collins.
Anna’s story is that of a woman of breeding and principle, who, having fulfilled her obligations to an unsympathetic husband, to whom she has borne two children, accepts, after his death, the equivocal position of common law wife to the man with whom, as a little girl, she fell deeply and abidingly in love. Involved by a profound sense of duty in a series of obligations to the grown-up children of her first marriage and to a beloved grandchild, she manages, nevertheless, to conduct with dignity and devotion her relationship with Evan Crewe—an industrial magnate of the Second World War.
The book ends on a high note of philosophy that carries conviction through the personal qualities of the heroine.
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