In Godden's own writings there are analogies between Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy and Gypsy, Gypsy (1940), also set in France. The latter story describes an irredeemably wicked Englishwoman, Barbe de Marquemont, who has inherited her husband's estate in Normandy.
She allows a gypsy to live there with his family, but at a high price, the total loss of his personal freedom. Her cruel exploitation of the gypsy is a.....
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