Publisher's Synopsis
'A Different Truth' explores the lives of the residents of the fictional village of Branslow. Henry Bowman, wife Alice and Peter and Elizabeth Littleton are Quakers, a strict religious minority, at best reviled by their neighbours, at worst cruelly prosecuted by officers of the law. Following the restoration of Charles II, other villagers are returning to a more easy-going way of life. Abel Chinnock is a moderately prosperous farmer seeking higher status. He welcomes the social opportunities provided at celebrations of previously banned village festivals, while his wife Ruth, less confident and easily moved to tears, supports him loyally. Young lovers, John Taylor and Frances Palmer, each standing on different sides of a religious conflict, attempt to reconcile their parents to the situation, but are doomed from the start. At the 'Green Man', Frances's father, George, regularly meets his friends; Eddie 'the opinionated one', and Dai 'the quiet one', while Jack the fiddler plays, and life continues, knitted together by the revival of old customs.
