The Women of Eden by Marilyn Harris (1980) Hardcover

The Women of Eden
by Marilyn Harris
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Copyright:  1980
Book Club Edition

Sweeping from England's Devon coast to London, Cambridge, and finally America, this new volume in the Eden family saga is surely the best yet.

John Murrey Eden is the dominating force in the lives of the five Eden women. Lady Mary Eden, John's cousin, is the recipient of his greatest beneficence and the object of his deepest rage. Young and headstrong, Mary is stifled and eventually almost killed by John's zealous protection. When she falls in love with Burke Stanhope, a man John despises, battle lines are clearly drawn. Mary must decide if her love for Burke is stronger than her loyalty to the man who has singlehandedly rescued her family from financial ruin.

Elizabeth Eden, the closest to a mother John has ever known and his staunchest supporter, lives with Mary in her fashionable London home. As she watches John destroy the family she loves, even she is forced to choose a life independent of him.

Lady Lila Harrington Eden is John's charmingly free-spirited wife, whose suffering at John's behest is perhaps the most devastating of all.

Dowager Countess Harriet Eden, Mary's mother and John's aunt, lives in a self-inflicted world of darkness as penance for sin so heinous that only she and John know of its nature.

And finally, Dhari, John's mistress, whose deep affection for John is replaced by an even stronger love for his solicitor, with catastrophic results.

The Eden women's raging conflicts with John and their abiding love for one another provide the framework for this superbly written historical novel. As in This Other Eden, The Prince of Eden. and The Eden Passion, the reader is so caught up in the family's dramatic events that the book's ending comes all too soon.

Condition: Used. Good condition. Hardcover. Dust cover. Dust cover edges show edge wear.  Dust cover flaps and pages may be tanning from age. Spine of the book is loose when the book is open, but pages are in tact. Previous owner's name and date are written on the front endpaper. There's a sleeve pasted to the front endpaper with an index card. It was a way for the previous owner to keep track of her books.

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