Publisher's Synopsis
This novel, first published in 1863, is set in the Devon countryside and is a study of middle-class life in a small provincial community in mid-nineteenth century England.;It tells of Rachel Ray, and her suitor Luke Rowan, and his battle to wrest control over Baslehurst's brewery from the ageing Mr Tappitt.;P.D.Edwards has also written "Anthony Trollope, His Art and Scope" (1977), "Anthony Trollope's Son in Australia" (1982) and edited Trollope's "Autobiography" and "Framley Parsonage".
