The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins

569 pages

Paperback

Penguin Books

1868

ISBN: 9780140420245

Review

‘There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road – there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven – stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments…’

Walter Hartright, walk along a lonely, moonlit road are disrupted by his meeting a distressed figure, clad entirely in white. What seems at first to be a coincidental encounter is placed into uneasy context when Hartright takes up his duties at drawing master to half-sisters Marian Halcombe and the beautiful heiress Laura Fairlie. The thin, worried woman in white will prove to be the link between Laura and those determined to wrest her fortune from her.

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