num_pages: 224
description: Mary was plain, middle-aged and reliable. Her life centred on her father, the crabbed and difficult Canon Jocelyn, and on the quiet duties of a rector's daughter deep in the country. She never dreamed that her life was to be shaken to the core by an unlooked-for love affair. "THE RECTOR'S DAUGHTER is a masterpiece...it is about love; filial love and married love and extreme sexual passion, and about the anguish, despair and intermittent bliss of every hopeless relationship between man and woman. It is a blisteringly honest account of middle-aged desire, that most painful of all afflictions, and at the same time a careful, tender study of a happy marriage" Susan Hill
language: English
title: The Rectors Daughter
titlecomplete: The Rectors Daughter (Penguin Modern Classics)
characters: Canon Jocelyn, Robert Herbert
genres: Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction, English Literature, Modern Classics, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, British Literature, Novels, Classics
ratings_count: 706
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd