Harnessing Peacocks
Author: Mary Wesley
Hebe lives happily alone with her son in Cornwall where he is receiving an expensive education. Hebe has two chief talents in life — cooking and making love — and these she has exercised with dignity, in privacy and for profit. But the even tenor of her days is threatened, when separate strands of her life become entangled, and everything changes…..Read More
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