Early Autumn

Summary

In a stately house outside Boston, Olivia Pentland finds herself slowly suffocated by the inherited traditions, pride, and concealed scandals of her husband's once-distinguished New England family. Bromfield uses the household as an emblem of a fading Puritan elite unable to adapt to modern emotional and social realities. Written with measured, drawing-room realism, the novel is a study of duty, repression, and the longing for renewal.