South Riding Author:Winifred Holtby Set in an English countryside caught between the traditions of the past and the pressing urgencies of change, South Riding is filled with a host of vivid-as-life men and women seeking their varied and troubled destinies. Within its borders are to be found love and betrayal, greed and self-sacrifice, hope and despair, and all the other conflic... more »ting emotions that make a battleground of the human heart.
And at it's center is the overwhelmingly intense story of a stubborn man of honor and an outspoken iconoclastic schoolmistress drawn together by a passion both unthinkable and irresistible, and of their struggle to find happiness and fulfillment in a world that would not understand or forgive.« less