"It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love -this hunger of the heart - as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world."

Spanning a period of 10 to 15 years, The Mill On The Floss details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, siblings who grow up at Dorlcote Mill on the River Floss. Maggie has two lovers – Philip Wakem, son of her father’s enemy, and Stephen Guest, already promised to her cousin. But the love she wants most in the world is that of her brother Tom. Maggie’s struggle against her passionate nature leads her to a deeper understanding and to eventual tragedy. George Eliot is the pen name for Mary Ann Evans an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. This abridged version is read by Sara Kestelman.