内容简介：
When a third daughter was unexpectedly born to Alice Fitzgerald, heiress of the great house of Neill's Court in the west of Ireland, she called her Tiger. Her husband, dismayed by the baby's arrival, took himself off to Italy, never to return. Tiger had to endure the resentment of her two elder sisters, who were jealous both of her presence and of her extraordinary beauty. By the time Tiger was eighteen, life at Neill's Court had become almost unbearable. Poverty, illness and isolation had caused Alice to become an invalid and Tiger knew that she had to escape...