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Ombra

Author
Margaret Oliphant
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
15 hours 29 minutes
ISBN
9781836102830
Published
20 March 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • isolation
  • emotional neglect
  • coming of age
  • family dynamics
  • guardian relationship
  • loneliness
  • search for identity
  • social interaction
  • romantic awakening
  • personal growth

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Description

Kate Courtenay, fifteen, heiress of Langton-Courtenay, has a house and almost no one who cares, until aunt Mrs Anderson and cousin Ombra (Shadow) take her to the Isle of Wight. Two look-alike Berties, a Continental secret, and rivalry for love teach her she is not the centre of every room. Isolation as family weather: a girl learning belonging the hard way.

Author

Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897) was a Scottish novelist who wrote as if the rent depended on it — because it often did. Widowed young, she supported a large household with novels, biographies, reviews, and stories of the seen and unseen, becoming one of the Victorian age's most tireless professionals. Domestic realism, historical fiction, and ghostly tales all came from the same steady pen.

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