This novel, first published in 1863, is set in the Devon countryside and is a study of middle-class life in a small provincial community in mid-nineteenth century England. It tells of Rachel Ray, and her suitor Luke Rowan, and his battle to wrest control over Baslehurst's brewery from the ageing Mr Tappitt. P.D.Edwards has also written "Anthony Trollope, His Art and Scope" (1977), "Anthony Trollope's Son in Australia" (1982) and edited Trollope's "Autobiography" and "Framley Parsonage".
- ISBN10 0192818090
- ISBN13 9780192818096
- Publish Date 1 November 1988 (first published 1 March 1980)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 30 April 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Oxford Paperbacks
- Format Paperback
- Pages 464
- Language English