Take Off Your Shoes

«Take Off Your Shoes» — the last novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich from her legendary cycle about The Gadfly. This time the main heroine is his great-grandmother — a proud, independent, romantic beauty, unable to come to terms with the fate of a «sold» wife and daringly entering the struggle for her feminine happiness. Beatrice Telford — the ideal wife, mother, and homemaker, the embodiment of all the virtues of an English lady. But within her soul lie pain, despair, anger, and contempt for the men whose treachery she faces again and again… Beatrice does not bow her head, and help comes to her from simple people — honest, brave, and capable of true friendship and sincere devotion...