THE FOUR ROADS - Sheila Kaye-Smith (2016, Hardcover)

Description: THE FOUR ROADS - Sheila Kaye-Smith (2016, Hardcover) Historical fiction originally published in 1921 by George H. Doran Co., reprinted here from the original artifact. EXCERPT: "In the swale of the day, towards Easter-time, the Reverend Mr. Sumption was walking along the North Road from Dallington to Woods Corner. Dallington is the mother-parish of the country bounded by the Four Roads, though there is also a church at Brownbread Street, in charge of a curate. Mr. Sumption had no truck with either Rector or curate, for he was a minister of the Particular Baptists, who had a Bethel in Sunday Street, as the lane was called which linked the East Road with one that trailed in and out of farms and woods to the throws at Bucksteep Manor. Not that the sect of the Particular Baptists flourished in the parish of Dallington, but the Bethel being midway between the church and the chapel, a fair congregation could be raked in on wet Sundays from the middle district, where doctrine, like most things in that land of farms, was swung by the weather." The daughter of a country doctor, Shelia Kaye-Smith was born in St Leonards-on-Sea near Hastings in East Sussex, England. Her first novel, The Tramping Methodist was published when she was 21. In 1923 her book, The End of the House of Alard became a best-seller and gave her national prominence. She went on to write over 40 books. Kaye-Smith's early novels were chiefly pre-occupied with rural life in Sussex and Kent. They focused on farming, land inheritance, agricultural mechanization and changing women's roles in rural life. Joanna Godden, arguably her most famous novel, was adapted into a film in 1947. FREE MEDIA MAIL SHIPPING TO DOMESTIC ADDRESSES! PRIORITY MAIL available at extra cost. International buyers may use eBay's Global Shipping Program. And see my other books for sale here!

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