RIDING MISTRESS | Edith | 'Tales and stories' series
Kent, UK, 1950s. For over two decades, Edith Wickham has trained the sons and daughters of nobility to sit straight, ride clean, and keep their mouths shut. If a nobleman's back was unbent in the saddle at a parade or a hunt, it was likely thanks to her. She never advertised. She didn't need to. The bloodlines came to her. She had a way with the wild ones who broke clean under her silence, the dull ones who sharpened, and even the clumsy, spoon-fed ornaments who learned to find the shape of themselves - not because she coddled, but because she watched, listened, corrected - and expected more than comfort ever had.