This title comes with an introduction by Sathnam Sanghera. You might find it har
d to imagine that those stout ageing spinsters living quietly in small English t
owns ever led lives of passion or hardship, that they ever possessed beauty or r
omantic ideals. In The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett tells the story of two su
ch old wives, sisters Constance and Sophia, from youth, through marriage, heartb
reak, triumphs and disasters, to old age.
