North and South

While a farewell dinner celebrates her cousin’s approaching marriage, Margaret Hale finds Edith asleep on a crimson sofa, all white muslin and blue ribbons. In three days, the home Margaret has known for nine years will be behind her.

In Victorian England, eighteen-year-old Margaret is poised between the polished London house where she grew up and the country parsonage she longs to call home. But her father’s decision to leave the village brings her family to Milton, a northern mill town where the rhythms of industrial life are a world away from the quiet South. There, Margaret must reckon with hardship, bitter divisions between workers and masters, and John Thornton, a proud mill owner whose convictions challenge her own. As the distance between their worlds becomes impossible to ignore, what will Margaret discover about the people—and the place—she thought she understood?

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