Desire is the story of an Edwardian New Woman who finds fulfilment in work and love. Desire Quebell can ignore society's rules when she has a high social position, but when she is cast on her own resources, society won't allow her to make her own living, until Peter Grimstone, the novelist and her closest friend, asks her to take a job as book-keeper in his family's Staffordshire pottery firm. His scheming brother tries to disrupt their business success,...
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