It’s the height of the Industrial Revolution, and ten years into Lenore’s marriage to steel magnate Henry, their marriage is basically in name only. Unable to bear Henry an heir, Lenore has fallen into a resigned depression, not helped by the severe cramps that every month brings. (Lenore ignores that “every month” seems to translate into “non-stop”.) When Henry’s ambitions to be excepted in society as more than nouveau riche drive him to purchase an estate in the remote British moorlands, a shocking carriage accident […]
“To be a woman is a horror I can little comprehend.”
Hungerstone: A Novel by Kat Dunn
