The Rector’s Wife
Author: Joanna Trollope
For twenty years, Anna Bouverie, as a priest’s wife, has served God and the parish in a variety of ways. She has baked for the Brownies, delivered parish magazines, washed and ironed her husband’s surplices and clothed herself and her children in jumble-sale items.,,When her husband fails to gain promotion to archdeacon and retreats into isolated bitterness, and the bullying….Read More
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