The Vicar's Wife (Tales from Goswell)

The Vicar's Wife (Tales from Goswell)

by Kate Hewitt (Author), Katharine Swartz (Author)

Synopsis

Jane Hatton and her British husband Andrew relocate from New York City to a small village on the Cumbrian coast. Jane has been city-based and career-driven but when her fourteen year old daughter Natalie falls in with the wrong crowd at school in Manhattan, she and Andrew decide to try country living. However Jane has trouble getting used to the silence and solitude of a remote village. Natalie hates her new school, and eleven-year-old Ben struggles academically. Only seven-year-old Merrie enjoys country life. Has Jane made a horrible mistake? The Hattons have bought the old vicarage in the village. When Jane finds a scrap of shopping list, she grows curious about Alice, the vicar's wife who lived there years before. As we follow the twin narratives of Jane, in the present, and Alice in the 1930s we discover that both are on a journey to discover their true selves, and to address their deepest fears.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Edition: 1st New edition
Publisher: Lion Fiction
Published: 18 Oct 2013

ISBN 10: 1782640703
ISBN 13: 9781782640707

Media Reviews
An absorbing and captivating tale that kept me on the edge of my seat. Heart-warming, dramatic, and impossible to put down, The Vicar's Wife is the new book from Katharine Swartz's immensely talented pen. -Julie Bonello, CataRomance Reviews -- Julie Bonello
A lovely story, told in both Jane and Alice's voices. Beautifully written, impossible to put down. -- Rosemary Smith * Netgalley *
The conflict of balancing motherhood with a career, as well as the effort required of marriage, are issues that will surely resonate with modern readers. -- Alicia Sondhi * Foreword Reviews *
Author Bio
Katherine Swartz spent her childhood in Canada and then three years as a die hard New Yorker, before living in the Lake District with her husband, an Anglican minister, their five children, and a Golden Retriever. She enjoys such novel things as long country walks and chatting with people in the street, and her children love the freedom of village life - although she often has to ring four or five people to figure out where they've gone off to! She writes women's fiction as well as contemporary romance for Mills & Boon Modern under the name Kate Hewitt, and whatever the genre she enjoys delivering a compelling and intensely emotional story.