The three books gathered together as Eustace and Hilda explore a brother and sister's lifelong relationship. Hilda is self-sacrificing, yet domineering, puritanical and gorgeous; Eustace is gentle and dreamy: the two could hardly be more different, but they are also deeply devoted. As they grow up and go their separate ways in a world of power, position, money, and love, the relationship is marked by increasing pain. This is, above all, about two people who cannot live together or apart, about the ties that bind—and break.

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1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, to his betrothed, whose family owns the Majestic Hotel. She is strangely altered; her family's fortunes in spectacular decline. The hotel is disintegrating; its few guests thrive on games of whist; piglets frolic in the squash court. Meanwhile, the Major is captivated by the beautiful and bitter Sarah Devlin. The British Empire also totters: there is unrest in the East, and in Ireland itself the mounting violence of "the troubles."

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This novel is a lacerating account of the ties between daughter and mother. As a child, Mary's disposition and fierce intelligence set her apart from her Victorian family, especially her mother, who cannot hide her meager love for her only daughter. Mary grows up in solitude exploring her passions for literature, philosophy, and for the beauty of England's north country. But in time the independence Mary values— at almost any cost—threatens to become a form of captivity itself.

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