Publisher's Synopsis
When recently widowed Jess Martin leaves London for a new life in the country, she swaps the constraints of her well-meaning in-laws for the mixed morality of small town rural England. Together with her young daughter, who has been deaf from birth, she sets about renovating a cottage for their future, unaware that they will both find love and liberation in a surprising place... Jess is befriended by good time girl Suzy Fallon and finds herself falling prey to the charms of local widower Nigel Gilbert, whose parents are the hub of the small village's social scene. In the meantime she appears to have secured the attention, and affection, of the Garrow boy, the son of an elderly villager who has a reputation for witchcraft. Unwilling to give in to the small-mindedness and gossip mongering of her superficially God fearing neighbours, Jess can't help feeling there is more to Lee Garrow's story than meets the eye...although she hopes he won't distract her from making the most of her new life, and her new romance.
