The Convert

A pillow sails across the nursery, a little boy protests, and Vida Levering arrives dressed in black lace and yellow jewels. The children have been waiting for her—but whose turn is it to be loved first?

In the Tunbridges’ grand London household, the children’s bedtime is less orderly than the dinner party gathering downstairs. Vida, elegant and warmly at ease among Sara and Cecil’s squabbles, is both their aunt and the visitor they can’t bear to share; soon she must leave their lively nursery for the company of adults and its stricter rules. Beneath the playful banter lies a woman measuring her place in a society with firm ideas about how women should live. What will Vida choose when affection and expectation pull her in different directions?

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