Anna of the Five Towns: Arnold Bennett

Growing up in the world of the `five towns` of industrial England, with their furnaces and chimneys, huddled red-brown streets, prayer meetings and small-minded bigotry, Anna is dominated by her miserly and tyrannical father. When she inherits a fortune and finds love, she struggles to break free from the constraints upon her, even though she is torn between duty and her deepest feelings. Arnold`s novel of parental tyranny and rebellion is a portrayal of a woman of great spirit, complexity and integrity.