People Like That

“The sun comes through those little panes and chirps all over the floor,” Miss Dandridge tells Kitty—who sees only a horrid old neighborhood and a baffling choice.

In a forgotten corner of the city, among shabby houses and a park its former residents have left behind, twenty-six-year-old Miss Dandridge has made a home of her own. After years under other people’s roofs, she relishes the freedom to shape her days—but her friends condemn her address, and even kind Mrs. Mundy cannot understand why she chose it. Miss Dandridge can’t quite explain it herself. Beyond the fashionable streets she knows, Scarborough Square offers lives she has never bothered to see, and the people Kitty calls “nobody” may change what she thinks she knows. What will she find when she begins to look beyond the pretty part of town?

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