La colline aux adieux

By A. Manette Ansay

Subjects: Domestic fiction, Fiction, Married women, City and town life, Catholics

Description: The hell on earth of living with one's inlaws. The protagonist is Ellen Grier whose husband decides for financial reasons that the whole family--there are two children--will live with his parents in a small town. In addition to the usual tensions such an arrangement creates, the wife has to watch her husband revert to mummy's little boy who behaves like a wimp before his domineering father.