Complex sentence: From the very beginning of the book it is clear that Dorothy Glovers must have been a nasty woman; a woman who did not treat her children with love and affection, but ruled them and deprived them of life's pleasures.
Split into simpler sentences: From the very beginning of the book it is clear that Dorothy Glovers must have been a nasty woman. A woman who did not treat her children with love and affection, but ruled them and deprived them of life's pleasures.