sag-ceilinged

Updated: May 10, 2025

The queer, low house, with its mixture of spaciousness and crookedness, its huge, sag-ceilinged rooms and narrow, twisting passages, was almost a personality to her now, one of the Godden family, the last of kin that had remained kind. Her activities were merciful in crowding what would otherwise have been a sorrowful period of emptiness and anxiety.

Sheila Kaye-Smith - Joanna Godden