Friday 26 April 2024

Wheel of Fortune II

Robert's health declines and he ends up in a wheelchair. Ginevra has another son, Kester, and John one of the brothers starts to support his father and sick brother. However he too has problems. His first wife dies and he makes a hasty second marriage to an American Millionaire's daughter. This marriage produces a daughter, but proves to be a mistake. Constance, his wife is a dull chilly woman and he finds her exhausting.. and he realises that the woman he loves is Bronwen, a Welsh working class woman who has been living nearby with her 2 children. He sleeps with Bronwen and gets her pregnant.. and he asks Constance for a divorce, but she flatly refuses. John tries to manage the estate, Oxmoon, and help his aging, increasingly shaky father... who has taken up with his housekeeper as his mistress. But he is unpopular in the area, because of his broken marriage and the fact that he is living more or less openly with Bronwen. Robert's health declines and in the end he dies after several years of suffering leaving one son, Kester who is nervy, sensitive, artistic and very unlike most of the Godwins.

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