The Nutmeg Tree
by:
Margery Sharp (author)
Format: hardcover
Publish date: 1937
Publisher: Grosset and Dunlap
Pages no: 313
Edition language: English
Margery Sharp’s The Nutmeg Tree has one of the best opening chapters I’ve read in a long time. When we meet Julia Packett (sometimes, but not really, Mrs. Macdermott), she is in the bath tub. She has been there for over an hour. She won’t come out because there are two men outside who want five poun...