Hester

Description:

"The aging Catherine Vernon, jilted in her youth, has risen to power in a man's world as head of the family bank. She thinks she sees through everyone and rules over a family of dependants with knowing cynicism. But there are two people in Redborough who resist her. One is Hester, a young relation with a personality as strong as Catherine's, and as determined to find a role for herself. The other is Edward, Catherine's favourite, whom she treats like a son. Conflict between young and old is inevitable, and in its depiction of the complex relationships that develop between the three principal characters, Hester is a masterpiece of psychological realism. In exploring the difficulty of understanding human nature, it is also a compulsive story of financial and sexual risk-taking that mounts towards a searing climax."--Back cover.

subjects: Fiction,  Older women,  Women bankers,  Family-owned business enterprises,  Triangles (Interpersonal relations),  Conflict of generations,  Young women,  Man-woman relationships, fiction,  Young women, fiction,  England, fiction,  Fiction, romance, general,  Fiction, family life,  Fiction, psychological,  Fiction, general,  Women,  Bankers,  Romance fiction,  Man-woman relationships,  Love,  Fiction, fantasy, general

Places: England