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The Girl
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Hannah Boyle grows up as the unacknowledged daughter of prosperous Matthew Thornton and is raised within a household where her parentage is an open secret but never a source of protection. Anne, the woman who controls her daily life, uses humiliation and violence to enforce Hannah’s inferior position.
Friendship with Ned Ridley offers emotional refuge, but family calculation and sexual vulnerability push Hannah towards a marriage she has not freely chosen. Her story follows the cost of illegitimacy in a society where a young woman’s reputation can be destroyed by the people who created her circumstances.
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