Description
Against a brilliantly observed background of life in the Staffordshire Potteries, Anna of the Five Towns is both a novel about a gossipy, myopic, savage community and at its heart a young girl dominated by her miserly father. Anna Tellwright struggles to find freedom and independence, wanting both to please her father and help Willie Price. Willie's father killed himself after falling into bankruptcy. Meanwhile Anna is courted by the town's most eligible bachelor but does her heart already belong to Willie?
‘Deeply moving, original, and dealing with material that I had never encountered in fiction, but only in life’ MARGARET DRABBLE