Publisher's Synopsis
Arriving at harvest time in a sleepy village in the shadow of Glastonbury Tor, the Palmer family is making a fresh start - with a new job for recently bankrupted Jim, and a new life for Margaret and the children, Billy and Sarah. At first it's a smaller, slower world, but even before winter has arrived, opportunities open up - especially for Jim, with his eye for easy money and a pretty face. However, in such a small town nothing goes unobserved, either by the locals or by Billy, who is about to start dreaming of girls...