The True Heart (Penguin Modern Classics)

Leaving her orphanage at sixteen, Sukey Bond finds employment as a servant in the remote New Easter Farm, deep within the Essex Marshes. There she falls in love with simple, gentle Eric, the son of the rector's wife. But when their relationship is discovered, they are swiftly separated. So begins Sukey's quest to be reunited, a quest that will take her through every layer of Victorian society...

Pasandu-si orfelinatul la saisprezece ani, Sukey Bond isi gaseste un loc de munca ca servitor in indepartata ferma New Easter Farm, in adancul mlastinilor Essex. Acolo se indragosteste de Eric simplu si bland, fiul sotiei rectorului.