Backwater
by Dorothy M. Richardson
“A pioneer of the inner life fights to find her voice in the stifling silence of suburban tradition.”
Miriam Henderson returns to England only to find herself adrift in the suffocating social tides of a suburban North London school. This groundbreaking work of psychological fiction captures the quiet rebellion of a woman determined to define her own existence against the backdrop of early 20th-century tradition.
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