Village Fates — Winifred Foley

Buried deep in the forest is Badger's Green, the immaculate but sterile home of Byram Warren, his cowed wife Agnes and their daughter, Helen. Stifled all her life by her cold, disciplinarian father and his religious fanaticism, the naive Helen is ill-prepared for her blossoming feelings when she meets John Ackers, a local forester recently abandoned by his wife. Her innocence has calamitous consequences. But it also sets in motion a chain of events that bring love and human warmth.