One Woman: Being the Second Part of a Romance of Sussex by Alfred Ollivant

Description

Alfred Ollivant, best known for Bob, Son of Battle, returns to the English countryside he loved for the second part of his ‘Romance of Sussex.’ It is autumn 1908, and an old-fashioned, one-horsed carrier’s cart is tilting east along the Lewes road under the northern scarp of the Downs, carrying a young man and woman among the hen-coops. Into their world come the hostel and its rooms, the watchman on the head, the grandfather and the landlord — and, looming over all, the figure of the woman the book is named for, around whom the passions of the country parish gather like weather.

Ollivant writes of the Downs in short, hard, gleaming chapters — the creeping death, the skirmishes, the pitched battle, the thunder — that make the landscape itself a character. There are soldiers in the story too, and a colonel, but its true subject is the one woman, and the forces of duty, desire, and pride that move everyone else about her. A passionate, unsentimental English novel that deserves its quiet fame.

Why readers still come back to it

• The fine sequel to one of the great Edwardian Sussex novels
• Landscape prose of real power — the Downs become a character
• An intense, unsentimental study of a woman and those who love her

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