Book description
The unforgettable story of a young girl born into poverty and raised
in riches.
In a small village in the West Country a baby girl is born, the
fifth child of an impoverished labourer. For little Blanche the future
appears bleak. Then one fateful day Blanche's mother is requested at
the 'big house' to nurse Marianne, the motherless daughter of John
Savill whose wife has died in childbirth. The two girls, so different
in their hopes, are brought up together caring for each other as
sisters.
Blanche is torn between her love for her real mother and her desire
for a life of wealth and ease. Her friendship with Marianne remains
the one constant in her life. But then she meets Marianne's intended
husband, with tragic consequences for them all.
In this original and vivid saga, Jess Foley weaves a tale of passion
and pain against a background of unsentimentalized rural England.
Jess Foley was born in Wiltshire but moved to London to study at the
Chelsea School of Art, and then worked for several years as a painter
and actor before writing
So Long At The Fair
. This was followed by
Too Close to the Sun
. Jess lives in Blackheath, southeast London.
