Originally published in 1951 from the author of beloved holiday classic The Feast comes a glorious coming-of-age tale about a heroine whose wedding day does not go entirely to plan . . .
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-People seem to get over things, don-t they? I don-t know how, but they do - ordinary people. I-m very ordinary, so I expect I shall do what they do.-
Lucy Carmichael is jilted at the altar. But no matter. Her loving and kind family never liked her explorer fianc-nyway.
Instead of moping or falling into her supportive family-s arms, however, Lucy abandons their suburban home. Heading for the country, she takes up a teaching position in the industrial town of Ravonsbridge.
There, she finds solace in her work, in her new (rather gossipy) colleagues - and rediscovers her sensible young self.
But if Lucy has, despite everything, kept her head - where lies her heart?
Praise for Margaret Kennedy:
''She is not only a romantic but an ana
