The Kingdom of the Rose
- author
- Margaret Bacon
- Narrator
- Nancy Clegg
- Length
- 22 hours
- Publisher
- Calibre Audio
- Catalogue #
- 6725
- Categories
- Historical Fiction
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When her first love dies in the Great War, Eglantine Thorpe resigns herself to life as an unmarried teacher. She turns down a later proposal of marriage when she realises that she cannot sacrifice her independence. In WWII a great niece becomes the daughter she never had. This is the portrait of a woman whose struggles and sacrifices mirror the times she lives in.