But Parr was damaged in World War I, and although his feelings for Ellen are tender and complete, they will never include a sexual relationship. Ellen emerges from this emotional crucible a determined, clearheaded, reserved young woman who recognizes, at 18, that love could be hers in the form of 39-year-old mill owner Selwyn Parr. Born into a wealthy family, Ellen was 11 in 1932 “when things started disappearing,” the first indication of the financial ruin that would lead to her father’s suicide and the family’s shameful, swift descent into poverty and hunger, leavened only by the unspoken kindness of a small local community. debut offers a slow reveal of a story, piecing together Ellen Calvert’s life in the English village of Upton. In scenes lit by small yet plangent detail, Liardet’s U.S. This chronicle of an Englishwoman’s life across the middle of the 20th century radiates love and suffering through a caring but incomplete marriage, war, and aching affection for other people’s children.
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