Forgotten Laughter

Published by Headline. Jacket illustration: Bryan Hayes

 

Above: Venford Reservoir on Dartmoor near Foxhole, the Fosters’ home.

Below: Saddle Bridge over the stream known as the O Brook.

 

When Louise Parry arrives at Foxhole for her summer holiday, she is welcomed by kind, sensitive Brigid Foster and her incorrigible, elderly mother, Frummie. Amid the peace of Dartmoor, Louise tries to forget the haunting memories from her past but an unexpected visitor forces her to remember.

 

Meanwhile, Brigid is battling with her own painful memories. It seems she cannot forgive her mother for abandoning her as a child, nor can she accept that her bold, beautiful half-sister, Jemima, was the daughter whom her mother chose to keep.

But, as summer passes, laughter returns to Foxhole. New relationships are formed, old wounds are healed and past love is rekindled. It is time for each of the women to learn that only in letting go of the past can they find life for today and hope for tomorrow.

 

Some readers have enquired about the extract from a letter from

Fra Giovanni Giocondo to Countess Allagia Aldobrandeschi on Christmas Eve, 1513 which appears in this book. Click anywhere on this paragraph

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PLEASE NOTE:

 

My publishers in the USA,

St Martins Press,

have published this book under the title

‘A Summer in the Country’