In this sequel to 'Woman of the House,' Ireland's best-loved author of tales of country life has woven, with her usual unerring skill, a novel with an unusually dramatic edge. A story of rural conflicts and passions, it will delight her many devoted readers and win new ones. Martha Phelan, the woman of the house at Mossgrove, is locked in stubborn conflict with her son Peter, who is now twenty and champing at the bit. Meanwhile, the age-old dispute between the Phelans and the Conways intensifies in a public row before finally errupting into sudden, shocking violence.