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The old wives' tale

Pages
612
Published
2017
Language
English

Synopsis

This novel follows the lives of two sisters, Constance and Sophia, from their youth in a provincial English town to old age. Spanning nearly fifty years, their stories unfold against the backdrop of changing times, from the mid-Victorian era to the modern industrial age. Their paths diverge and eventually converge, offering a look at ordinary lives lived through extraordinary change.

About the author

A
Arnold Bennett

Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English novelist, playwright, and journalist, whose novels and plays generally reflected middle-class life in north Staffordshire. He was born in Hanley, Staffordshire (which is now Stoke-on-Trent), the son of a solicitor. He was educated in Newcastle-under-Lyme. After school, he worked for his father, and in his spare time he was a journalist. At age twenty-one, he moved to London to work as a solicitor's clerk. In 1889 he won a writing competition in Tit-Bits maga...

Characters

Constance BainesProtagonist
Sophia BainesProtagonist
All characters in The old wives' tale