Perfect Explanation
Perfect Explanation Finalist for the Desmond Elliott PrizeA "superb debut"* novel--based on the story of the author's grandmother--following an aristocratic woman who abandons her family and her…
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Perfect Explanation
Finalist for the Desmond Elliott PrizeA "superb debut"* novel--based on the story of the author's grandmother--following an aristocratic woman who abandons her family and her money in search of a life she can claim as her own. 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. (*The Guardian)Enid Campbell, granddaughter of a duke, grew up surrounded by servants, wanting for nothing except love.
Broken by postpartum depression, overwhelmed by motherhood and a loveless marriage, Enid made the shocking 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.Interweaving one significant day in 1964, when it seems the