A friend of mine who grew up in Yorkshire read this book as a girl and it sounds great so I'm trying to find it. She THINKS this is the title but isn't 100% sure so here's the description she gave.
It's about two sisters who live in the same house, and who marry two men for very different reasons. One marries for money and has everything she dreams of - plush carpets, dresses, foods, silks, everything colourful and sumptuous. The other marries for love and has no money. But she has enough food on the table and flowers in the garden and she is happy. The one with the money becomes sad and bitter and loses her fortune or something.
And her husband does love her, but she can't see past the money. And the thing I liked about it most was the illustrations and all the sumptuous over-the-topness of one sister's house and the plain but beautiful other sister's house. She has a rose garden that she loves which grows around the door of her house.
2006-10-19
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