`The Little Willow' is one of the short stories of author Frances Towers, collected in the book `Tea with Mr. Rochester'. Barely recognized in the field of literature, Frances Towers was born in 1885 in England and died in 1948 at the age of 63. It is said that Towers was a reluctant writer, who did not find writing easy. She wrote only eighteen stories during her lifetime, which was later on collected in the book `Tea with Mr. Rochester'. All of Towers's fiction is populated by sensitive, innocent women in search of love and hence, she is sometimes compared to Jane Austen. Her story `The Little Willow' depicts the same essence and talks about a secret love.

The story `The Little Willow' is about a girl named Lisby Avery, eternally outshined by her two extremely charming sisters Charlotte and Brenda. The story is set in the heart of London during...