Julia Comes Home (The Native Heath) by Elizabeth Fair Copyright 1954 Hardcover

A widow, at an age when birthdays are best forgotten, with no children to occupy her mind, can be very lonely. Julia Dunstan knew she was more fortunate than most widows, not merely because she was prosperous—as widows go—but because she had always taken an interest in other people. And from the moment Julia moves to Goatstock, where she has inherited a house, there are plenty of people for her to take an interest in. For a start, there’s cousin Dora, who might just as easily have left the house herself and who instead becomes Julia’s companion. Then there’s Lady Finch, the local expert on Fresh Food and the victim of deception so dastardly that even her attractive but irreverent niece, Harriet, is indignant. This distracts Harriet for a while from the rather thankless task of planning the futures of her friends, Marian and Robert. And all are concerned with the news that the village will be made into a “New Town”. However, the old values, at least those of Elizabeth Fair’s fiction, remain wit, charm, and romance. Good vintage condition, prior library edition Published in Great Britain "The Native Heath" by Elizabeth Fair Funk & Wagnalls Co New York Copyright 1954 259 pages 5 1/2" wide 8 1/4" tall 1 1/8" thick