His wild years behind him, Albert Ashby has returned to the farm where he was raised in southwest England. Once a sought-after fashion photographer, he renounced artifice and glamour to document the beauty and horror of some of the world's least glamorous places. Now, he inventories his work and his life in the solitude of the old house. The solitude is broken by a January visit from his headstrong older sister, Edith, a former Member of Parliament and the survivor of two disastrous marriages. She has plans for Alfred, the ...
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His wild years behind him, Albert Ashby has returned to the farm where he was raised in southwest England. Once a sought-after fashion photographer, he renounced artifice and glamour to document the beauty and horror of some of the world's least glamorous places. Now, he inventories his work and his life in the solitude of the old house. The solitude is broken by a January visit from his headstrong older sister, Edith, a former Member of Parliament and the survivor of two disastrous marriages. She has plans for Alfred, the farm, and the future, plans she hopes will help the two of them mend their neglected relationship . . .
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