The Native Heath (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Elizabeth Fair | knygos.lt

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When Julia Dunstan inherits Belmont House, she feels she is meant to make her home upon her native heath-in the north country village of Goatstock. It is the hand of Fate-even if at times she wishes it had guided her to a desert island instead. Fond though she is of her hearty cousin, Dora, of the ex parlourmaid, Nanny, who plays with such consumate artistry the role of old family nurse, and (in quite a different way) of her bachelor cousin, Francis Heswald--Julia, nevertheless, has problems, and in this she is not alone. Circumstances arise in Goatstock which drive Miss Pope, the vicar's sister, to nervous distraction, and Lady Finch, the local expert on fresh food, is the victim of a deception so dastardly that even her attractive but irreverent niece Harriet is indignant. This, in fact, distracts Harriet for a while from the self-imposed and rather thankless task of planning the futures of her friends, Marian Prentice and Robert, Julia's nephew. However, Miss Fair's eye for human foibles, though acute, is kindly and she guides her characters benignly to the happy ending they deserve. This, her third novel, is as elegant, as witty, and as wholly entertaining as its predecessors.