The Life and Death of Harriett Frean

May Sinclair's classic novel of lost love and the values by which we define ourselves. The book tells the story of Harriet Frean, an English woman born and raised to uphold Victorian values of self-sacrifice. When Frean falls in love with her best friend's fiance, she must choose between love and her conceptions of proper conduct. Author Jonathan Coe declared the work to be a "small, perfect gem of a book".