‘“Bart
Sadler ... Bart Sadler...” The whisper echoed round the room
as everyone turned to stare.
Bart
Sadler, their looks seemed to say, back from the dead.’
It
is the year 1928 and as Bart Sadler and Sophie Turner gaze at each other across
a crowded room, memories come flooding back. Sixteen years is a long time. Pleasant
memories for one; terrifying for the other. Sophie tries to avert her eyes but,
as he walks towards her, she realises there is no means of escape.
Bart Sadler has earned himself an unsavoury
reputation in the Dorset town of Wenham. Held responsible for the death of a
popular citizen, Laurence Yetman, and the ruin of the reputation of Sophie the rector’s
pious daughter, there can be little joy now at his unwelcome return. So, when
he attempts to manoeuvre his way into Wenham society, the people of the town
unite in dismissive contempt.
All except Deborah, Sophie’s daughter. Disgraced
and an outcast like himself, Bart senses a kindred spirit – but can she trust
his claim to be a reformed character, or will he be her downfall, just as he
was for her mother?
Meanwhile, having worked so hard to restore
Pelham’s Oak, the Woodville family home, to its ancestral glory, young Sir
Carson Woodville risks his marriage, family and reputation in pursuit of long
lost youth – and a past love which threatens more than one future …
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‘“Bart Sadler ... Bart Sadler...” The whisper echoed round the room as everyone turned to stare.
Bart Sadler, their looks seemed to say, back from the dead.’
It is the year 1928 and as Bart Sadler and Sophie Turner gaze at each other across a crowded room, memories come flooding back. Sixteen years is a long time. Pleasant memories for one; terrifying for the other. Sophie tries to avert her eyes but, as he walks towards her, she realises there is no means of escape.
Bart Sadler has earned himself an unsavoury reputation in the Dorset town of Wenham. Held responsible for the death of a popular citizen, Laurence Yetman, and the ruin of the reputation of Sophie the rector’s pious daughter, there can be little joy now at his unwelcome return. So, when he attempts to manoeuvre his way into Wenham society, the people of the town unite in dismissive contempt.
All except Deborah, Sophie’s daughter. Disgraced and an outcast like himself, Bart senses a kindred spirit – but can she trust his claim to be a reformed character, or will he be her downfall, just as he was for her mother?
Meanwhile, having worked so hard to restore Pelham’s Oak, the Woodville family home, to its ancestral glory, young Sir Carson Woodville risks his marriage, family and reputation in pursuit of long lost youth – and a past love which threatens more than one future …
This is the fourth book in the six part
The People of This Parish Saga