Alison Edwards

Sarah Alison Edwards

It is the long hot summer of 1796. In Devonshire, fourteen-year-old Sarah lives on the large farm, which has been home to countless generations of her late mother's family.



Born and bred in the town, her father becomes increasingly dissatisfied with rural life. Sarah finds herself resenting him more with each passing day. He never allows her to work in the house or on the land and he forbids the entire household from mentioning her mother. And now to her dismay, he intends to send her away to a boarding school for young ladies.



One day, with her father supervising the harvest, a gentleman calls at the farmhouse. When he speaks fondly of her mother, Sarah warms to him. But later the purpose of his visit devastates her.