Take off your shoes

“Take off your shoes” is the last novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich from her legendary cycle about The Gadfly. This time the main character is his great-grandmother — a proud, independent, romantic beauty, unable to come to terms with her fate as a “sold” wife and boldly entering into the struggle for her female happiness. Beatrice Telford is the perfect wife, mother, and housekeeper, the embodiment of all the virtues of an English lady. But within her soul hide pain, despair, anger, and contempt for the men whose treachery she must face again and again… Beatrice does not lower her head, and simple people come to her aid — honest, brave, and capable of true friendship and sincere loyalty...