When Frances, recovering from a broken love affair, moved with her mother to lonely Beck Farm in the Yorkshire Dales, she was going into uncharted territory. Planning to open a guesthouse, she encountered only friendliness from the villagers, but there seemed to be some mystery about the previous owner of Beck Farm, Ben Thornton . What had happened to his wife - and why was she still so bitterly resented? Both the ancient and neglected house and its old but magnificent apple tree were badly in need of care and attention. As she brought them both back to life Frances was to discover the history of the house and its occupants - and at the same time to rebuild her own life. Elvi Rhodes returns to her native Yorkshire as the setting for this glorious new novel .
- ISBN10 0753171791
- ISBN13 9780753171790
- Publish Date 1 July 2004 (first published 1 April 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 February 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher ISIS Publishing
- Imprint ISIS Large Print Books
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 444
- Language English