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The Wall Between

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First published: 1920
Pages: 188

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A hundred years of grudge sit between two New Hampshire farms in the shape of a half-ruined stone wall that neither family will claim or repair. Ellen Webster, seventy-five, close with money and quick with her tongue, works out that the surest way to keep her acres from her neighbor Martin Howe after she dies is an heir, so she writes to the orphaned niece she has never met and salts the letter with hints of an inheritance. Lucy comes east from Arizona in the spring of 1917, spirited enough to match her aunt but with no appetite for the feud, and the scheme starts to slip. Bassett keeps the village of Sefton Falls in dry focus, watching an inherited quarrel outlast everyone who had a reason for it.

About the author

Sara Ware Bassett

Sara Ware Bassett (1872-1968) was born in Newton, Massachusetts, taught kindergarten in the town's public schools, and built a long career out of the New England she knew, publishing more than forty novels from her 1907 debut into the late 1950s.