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A perfect explanation, Eleanor Anstruther

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A perfect explanation

Eleanor Anstruther

Enid Campbell, granddaughter of a duke, grew up surrounded by servants, wanting for nothing except love. But when her brother died in the First World War, a new heir was needed, and it was up to Enid to provide it. A troubled marriage and three children soon followed. Broken by postpartum depression, overwhelmed by motherhood and a loveless marriage, Enid made the shocking decision to abandon her family, thereby starting a chain of events -- a kidnap, a court case, and selling her son to her sister for £500 -- that reverberated through the generations. Interweaving one significant day in 1964, when it seems the family will reunite for one last time, with a decade during the interwar period, this story explores the perils of aristocratic privilege, where inheritance is everything and happiness is hard won

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