num_pages: 387
description: Life is not quite a fairytale for poor Viola. Left penniless the young widow is forced to live with her late husband's family in a joyless old house. There's Mr Wither a tyrannical old miser Mrs Wither who thinks Viola is just a common shop girl and two unlovely sisters-in-law one of whom is in love with the chauffeur. Only the prospect of the charity ball can raise Viola's spirits - especially as Victor Spring the local prince charming will be there. But Victor's intentions towards our Cinderella are in short not quite honourable ...
language: English
title: Nightingale Wood
publisher: Virago