The Priory by Dorothy Whipple

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The setting is Saunby Priory, a large house somewhere in England, partly modelled on Newstead Abbey near Nottingham where Dorothy Whipple had a weekend cottage. The story of the two Marwood girls, their father, the widower Major Marwood, and their aunt and the changes to their lives when the Major proposes marriage to a woman much younger than himself. First published 1939.

Dorothy Whipple lived most of her married life from 1917 until 1958 in Nottingham.