Emily Hourican > Quotes

“Aileen had always felt so sorry for Mildred – too tall, that fiery hair, no money, a domineering personality that meant she wouldn’t, couldn’t, perhaps, stoop and draw herself in and down so as to be appealing and fragile, someone a young man would want to protect and care for. Aileen had only ever seen the ways these things made Mildred a bad proposition for marriage –”
― Emily Hourican, The Guinness Girls: A Hint of Scandal: A dazzling and page-turning historical novel about the real-life Guinness sisters