Heartsease

An ordinary woman’s struggle to cope in extraordinary places, surrounded by power, greed, danger and lust...At only 16, Mary Hawke is married to the handsome Henry Crawford and goes to live with him in his Essex home. But her husband is a vicious brute who sees his innocent young wife as his property, to beat and abuse at his will. The appearance of a debonair Spaniard, old enough to be Mary’s fat...