Marriage

This is a family saga. Many of the family are minor aristocrats, some Scottish, some English. The English relatives have the typical prejudices of their day towards the Scots. The reader does have to put up with some narrowly drawn minor characters, plus some Scottish dialect. But most of the book centers on a few major characters, including twin sisters, one raised in Scotland and the other in England. The book title does not refer to one marriage, but to the state of being married and why people choose the ones they do.