# The Judge

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- Authors: [Rebecca West](https://www.bookquiver.com/rebecca-west)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2008-06-19

## Description

Ellen Melville is a beautiful suffragette who, at seventeen, wants passionately to experience all that life can give her. From her abandoned, impoverished mother she inherits only a capacity for love and this she freely gives when she meets Richard Yaverland, charming, experienced, a man of the world. But Richard is the illegitamate son of a powerful and frustrated woman. Marion Yaverland uses her own betrayal by Richard's father to imprison her son, creating a murderous bond which destroys everything it touches. The strugges of Ellen and Richard to survive the sins of their fathers takes its inevitable course: giving freely to her passionate lover, Ellen commences a re-enactment of all that has gone before.

## Editions

### The Judge

- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-18-4408-582-8
- Published: 2008-06-19
- Language: en_GB