Until the Packhorse Library is formed under the tough-talking, inspiring leader – Margery O’Hare. She bravely left one stifling life, only to fall right into another one. Bennett, who at first seemed romantic and dashing, cowers to his father’s every will and desire. Van Cleve is cruel, he is powerful, and he expects Alice to remain shut up tight at home making baby Van Cleves. But arriving in the rural town of Baileyville, Kentucky, where her new father-in-law is the local mine owner employing most of the residents, is anything but free. When Alice Wright married the dashing, all-American and wealthy Bennett Van Cleve, she thought she was escaping her oppressive life in England of tea parties, “proper behaviour”, lack of opinion, and her cold mother.
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