![]() ![]() She’s not a “wanted” child, nor are her numerous siblings. Her mother tries to abort her, and that pretty well sets the scene for Emmie’s childhood years. Our young protagonist, Emmie Bacon, starts out in life with all the disadvantages possible, being raised in the rural country cottage equivalent of a dismal slum. Let me say right now, this is a fantastic little novel, and it’s worth getting past that awful title. White Hell of Pity went off on another tangent, that of contemporary realism, with a splash of the darkly gothic which was to show up so very often in Lofts’ subsequent 40+ books. This was Norah Lofts’ third published book, after a book of connected short stories, I Met a Gypsy (1935), and a historical fiction, Here Was a Man: A Romantic History of Sir Walter Raleigh (1936). White Hell of Pity by Norah Lofts ~ 1937. ![]()
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