the Virgin and Gipsy

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Raised in a rigid rectory household dominated by her tyrannical grandmother and a father broken by his wife's abandonment, a young woman chafes against the suffocating respectability of her life. When a Romani gypsy and his companions camp nearby, she finds herself drawn to him with a force she cannot explain or suppress-a pull that threatens everything her world is built upon.Set against the bleak beauty of the English Midlands, this charged novella explores what happens when elemental passion collides with the carefully maintained structures of class and decorum. The gypsy becomes a living symbol of all that polite society forbids, and one woman's encounter with him will forever alter the course of her inner life.Written with fierce psychological intimacy, the story asks whether a soul shaped by repression can ever fully break free-and at what cost freedom finally comes.

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Pagina's: 114, Paperback, Wildside Press