This delightful novel from 1926 begins as an Austenesque comedy of manners about a middle-aged spinster living in London with family. Longing for her solitary childhood in the countryside, communing with nature, Lolly abruptly decides to move to a remote hamlet, where she finds a bewitching community of wild and independent women, and makes a life-changing pact with a devilish gentleman. Beautifully written, with a surprising supernatural twist and a subversively feminist message, Lolly Willowes is an overlooked classic!