Beyond the City

A Victorian suburban soap opera unfolds between three neighboring households in the English countryside in this novel by the acclaimed author.

In late nineteenth-century England, Londoners are beginning to leave the city for suburban homes in the countryside. For fifty years, sisters Monica and Bertha Williams could see their sizeable garden out their front window. Now, they've sold off the land, and three square villas have sprouted up on the spot. Their new neighbors are quite a different ...