Villette research the battle-scarred

the battle-scarred

It's a story to inspire you to welcome that idea

in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith

At a glittering society party in St

But everything changes when she discovers that Hunter is cheating on her—and she’s forced to decide what her next move should be

Villette research the battle-scarredWith neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor Paul Emmanuel. Drawing on her own deeply unhappy experiences as a governess in