Alice Taylor's gripping sequel to The Woman of the House.
At Mossgrove, the Phelan family farm, long-time hired hand Jack plays peacemaker as widow Martha Phelan battles her young son, Peter, who wants to modernize the farm. Tensions on the home front are bitter enough, but at the Conway farm across the river, more trouble is brewing. Slovenly Matt Conway feels trapped and abuses his wife, Biddy. Spurred on by a misguided belief that the Phelans got the best of him in a loan to buy land, he keeps vigil at a fence post plotting revenge ...
- ISBN10 1902011139
- ISBN13 9781902011134
- Publish Date 20 May 2000
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 18 July 2001
- Publish Country IE
- Imprint Mount Eagle Publications Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English