Asphodel

LibriVox recording of Asphodel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Read in English by Jim Locke; jenno; Rachel Lintern; Lynda Marie Neilson Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England, Daphne grows far away from home. In her first chance of freedom, at the age of almost 17, she finds an opportunity to forget for a while... Forget that her father, the renowned Sir Vernon Lawford, does not love her. To forget that, for some reason, nobody talks about her mother who traveled to the South of France and never returned. She can be a butcher's daughter from Oxford Street, she can control her