Mathilda

At four o’clock, winter dusk has already fallen over the snowbound heath. Alone in a cottage and certain she is dying, Mathilda begins the story she once believed too terrible to tell.

In Florence in November 1819, a young woman turns to the page as her last strength fades. Mathilda writes to Woodville, the kind friend who has asked why she lives in solitude, weeps so often, and keeps an impenetrable silence. Her memories carry her back to England and to her father, a wealthy, headstrong young man with a secret passion of his own. Mathilda believes a hideous necessity has bound her to misery, and that only death can end its hold. What happened to make her life’s story almost impossible to speak?

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