Affairs at Thrush Green - Miss Read

He stood for a few moments watching the scene, and then returned to his own bedroom which looked out over St Andrew’s church. It was there that he and Nelly had wed, worse luck! A tremor shook him as he thought of the awful possibility of his wife returning.

It’s not just Albert Piggott who has problems on his mind. The Reverend Charles Henstock is finding it very difficult to live up to his charismatic predecessor; the fearsome Mrs Thurgood and her arty daughter are determined to ‘do good’ for the church, whether it’s wanted or not; and when the eligible Kit Armitage returns, more than one heart begins to beat a little more rapidly …