Jane Westover is a brilliant corporate lawyer in the City a lonely, unpopular career girl determined to get to the top. But when illness forces her to accept a long rest, she sets out on a journey of self-discovery, which takes her back to her estranged family in the mysterious landscape of the Somerset Levels. She is astonished to find that its inhabitants can teach her more than she can teach them, and, initially reluctantly, she gets drawn into an old family feud to preserve their unique and precious region. But experience comes at a price. She soon falls in love with a man who as far as her family is concerned fights on the wrong side. In the end Jane must choose between the excitement of life with her sophisticated lover and the very different joys offered by the small town of Cossenford.
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Jane Westover is a lawyer so committed to her job that she is too busy for family and friends. When a letter from an aunt she barely remembers arrives asking for her help in a legal matter, she pays it little heed. Then one day she has a small stroke, unusual in someone her age and wholly attributed to the stress of her lifestyle. The doctor strongly suggests she take a six-month leave of absence. Shaken, she complies, then decides to visit her aunt in the small Somerset town of Cossenford. At first her aunt is blunt and off-putting, and Jane's other relatives are even less welcoming. Yet there's something about the small town that calls to her, and after repeated visits, Jane develops a warm relationship with her aunt and an interest in preserving the unique area of her birth. But all too soon she must make a choice between her career and the family she has grown to love in this heartwarming story of a woman at a crossroads in her life, a place many readers will be familiar with. Maria Hatton
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Sally Stewart, born a Londoner but now happily settled with her husband amid the green hills of Somerset, has written numerous short and full-length stories. Many of them reflect her love of history, or were born of places visited in the course of foreign travels.
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