Title: Hester
Description: "The aging Catherine Vernon, jilted in her youth, has risen to power in a man's world as head of the family bank. She thinks she sees through everyone and rules over a family of dependants with knowing cynicism. But there are two people in Redborough who resist her. One is Hester, a young relation with a personality as strong as Catherine's, and as determined to find a role for herself. The other is Edward, Catherine's favourite, whom she treats like a son. Conflict between young and old is inevitable, and in its depiction of the complex relationships that develop between the three principal characters, Hester is a masterpiece of psychological realism. In exploring the difficulty of understanding human nature, it is also a compulsive story of financial and sexual risk-taking that mounts towards a searing climax."--Back cover.
Subjects: Fiction, Older women, Women bankers, Family-owned business enterprises, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Conflict of generations, Young women, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Young women, fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, family life, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, general, Women, Bankers, Romance fiction, Man-woman relationships, Love, Fiction, fantasy, general
Places: England