Precious Bane, Mary Webb..


...the "unbreathing quiet of the place"...

okay, please fill me in on the book!
Precious is working on her Portugal info on another thread

It was written in 1924 and the title comes from Paradise Lost , her father named her so, because she was his Precious Bane..she had Graves Disease. Her stories were brooding tragic love stories.
PBS made it a movie years ago, starring Janet McTeer as Prudence (with a "hair lip") & Clive Owen ( ((L)) )..it was so well done, a good story.

Ooops, Hare

Janet McTeer, AND Clive Owen?
This MUST be watched!
I'll check netflix immediately
*-:)

One of my favorite books. I don't often read books again and again because I read so SLOWLY, but this one I have.

Clive Owen, huh, that's yummy casting. But as the brother or the weaver?

There is a Yiddish word that is close to the meaning we assumed PreciousBane meant: POTCHKA. It means to be busy without purpose, which fits in with the PreciousBane goals of kicking back for five to seven days.

But plotz does seem to sound better, doesn't it?