num_pages: 285
description: Mary Lindsay met her little niece and namesake only once, but she saw in the quiet, imaginative child a kindred spirit to inherit her ancient house. Fifty years later her niece inherited the house with no knowledge of it beyond her indelible childhood memories, and no experience at all of living in the country.Mary Lindsay is a born and bred Londoner who has enjoyed her city life-a prestigious job, and friends with whom she takes in the city pleasures of theatre, art and…As a retired businesswoman living in a rural house inherited from her aunt finds consolation for a failed romance with a married blind man by learning more about her aunt and herself.
language: English
title: The Scent of Water
titlecomplete: The Scent of Water
characters: Mary Lindsay
genres: Fiction, Christian, Classics, British Literature, Historical, Christian Fiction, Adult, Historical Fiction, Adult Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 2527
publisher: Hodder and Stoughton