Ann Veronica

Author: Wells, H. G., Schutt, Sita, Drabble, Margaret

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 31 March 2005 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from attending a fashionable Ball, she decides she has no choice but to leave her family home and make a fresh start in London. There, she finds a world of intellectuals, socialists, and suffragettes - a place where, as a student in Biology at Imperial College, she can be truly free. But when she meets the brilliant Capes, a married academic, and quickly falls in love, she soon finds that freedom comes at a price.