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The Minister's Wife

Author
Margaret Oliphant
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
13 hours 55 minutes
ISBN
9781836103127
Published
30 March 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • rural Scotland
  • family loyalty
  • social dynamics
  • sisters’ relationships
  • faith and religion
  • community expectations
  • personal sacrifice
  • romance
  • miraculous events
  • domestic life

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Description

Sisters Margaret and Isabel Diarmid keep a rural Scottish parish after their father’s death. Revival talk, claims of healing, and social pressure split them: Margaret’s quiet faith against Isabel’s worldly pull. A suitor’s claim, family tension, and the weight of community expectation press two sisters into opposite lives, where belief, duty, and desire cannot share the same roof without cost.

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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