Watson's Apology - Hardcover

In 1844 Anne Armstrong, a middle-aged Irish spinster, gets an unexpected chance to escape her life of genteel poverty. An English schoolmaster met briefly more than seven years before, and long forgotten, appears suddenly with a proposal. Though the Rev. Watson is not Prince Charming and his home is no castle, life with him seems preferable to a dreary room in Mrs. Gallagher's boardinghouse. Thus begins a marriage where frustrations pile upon disillusionments until everything collapses in hatred and bloody violence. British novelist Bainbridge uses the facts of a real Victorian murder to construct a page-turning psychological drama of domestic misery behind closed doors. Engrossing leisure reading. Starr E. Smith, Georgetown Univ. Lib., Washington, D.C.
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