The Judge and the Lady Gil Adamson A narrator watches her social

A narrator watches her social sphere deteriorate after her boyfriend’s rough-housing leads to his best friend’s tragic paralysis

Until his father interferes and blocks his chance at true happiness

yet occasionally cynical—although she did not share her human’s love of the wilderness and would have preferred life in the suburbs

including their potential for use in pest management and as hardy lawn replacements

When the anonymous man succumbs to his injuries

The Judge and the Lady Gil Adamson A narrator watches her socialWhen the beautiful and flirtatious Eleanor Wentworth is sent away from London in 1870 for her scandalous behaviour, she arrives, angry and rebellious, in Victoria, a town that falls far below her expectations of society. Soon, however, she is befriended by Celia Turner, the freethinking young wife of a conservative minister, and unlikely though it seems, they become lifelong friends. When Eleanor meets the fascinating judge Matthew Baillie Begbie, the