内容简介：
When beautiful Lucy Grey and her brother, William, become orphans, their futures are organized by hard-nosed Aunt Esther. Whilst Will is sent to Oxford University, Lucy is found a post in London as governess to Lord Hallburgh's two motherless children. However, Lucy soon senses a strange and threatening atmosphere in the household, run by Edmund Hallburgh's much older sister, the autocratic Honourable Caroline Hallburgh, who is physically disabled. She sees the growing friendship between Lucy and Edmund as a threat to her own position and is determined to break Lucy Grey. . .