The first of three books in "The Apple Tree Saga", set in the Worcestershire countryside. In 1886 young Beth, coming to terms with a tragic loss, goes with her mother to keep house for her grandfather and help to run his carpentry business. By the au...
The sequel to Pearce's "Apple Tree Lean Down" begins as the Wayman family moves into Holland Farm during the cruel, desperate years of the 1920s and, united in hope and effort, triumphs over adversity...
The son of a stonemason attempts to win the hand of a squire's daughter, in a lush pastoral portrait of nineteenth-century life that depicts the pain of young love and the unpredictable twists of fortune. Reader's Digest Cond Bks....