Six Mrs. Greenes

The collection offers linked portraits of successive wives in a single family, opening with an elderly matriarch whose fragmented memories and dependence on a gentle housekeeper frame the household's past. Each chapter focuses on a different woman, tracing private routines, marriages, griefs, and small domestic crises that illuminate character and shifting social expectations. Episodes pivot between quiet interior moments and brief social encounters, emphasising memory, duty, and the persistence of familial bonds across generations. The tone favors close observation of manners and inner life, allowing ordinary choices and losses to reveal the family's continuity and change.