The Pride of the Peacock

Zan had returned.She was perhaps more beautiful and more arrogant than she had been three years before when she had deserted her husband, Jock, and her twelve-year-old daughter for an Italian pianist and romance.There were two avenues of return open to Zan. One way led to the lovely, gloomy house in Ridgefield where her stern, proud, and adored Grandmother Peacock held sway over the self-pitying Peacock women. And the other, to her home with generous and dependable Jock, who had been unable to forget her, and Jenny, her silent, watchful child. Ruth Chatterton, author of Homeward Borne, has drawn a brilliant portrait of a reckless and romantic woman who throws the lives of four generations of her family into bewildering discord. She has written a penetrating novel of separation and divorce and their effects upon a sensitive child.