The Square of Many Colours — Jane Blackmore

This is the story of Ash Hamilton, lovely wayward daughter of a Lakeland farmer who was at heart a poet and whose erratic, passionate temperament she inherits. Ash loved her father with a deep, rich emotion, threaded through with their mutual love of the hills and the valley and the lakeside that was their home. But she was fated to fall in love with Rick Savage, who lived with his possessive sister in the big house near her father's farm, and Rick was the man who killed her father that black night by the waterside. The growth of a young girl's emotions from and uncertain desiring to a consuming fire, the near kinship between love and hate, the inexorable rule that one can never escape the consequences of any single action, for there is no freedom from the past, provide the themes which Miss Jane Blackmore courageously handles in this powerful and dramatic story.