Elizabeth Goudge

When David Eliot lost Nadine, then came back from the war, he was lonely and devastated by it's horrors. But his return to the Eliot family refuge helped to heal his soul and spirit. While not far away, was Nadine and her husband with their children in a wonderful old inn. It is a place where others from the past and present find their way to this healing and comforting oasis of intertwining destinies of love lost and gained.

This intricate story continues as each member of the family struggles to make sense of life-with all its love, pain, loss, and loyalty

In a remote mid-nineteenth-century English town, cathedral Dead Adam Ayscough holds a deep love for his parishioners and townspeople. When an obscure watchmaker strikes up an unlikely friendship with the Dean, it leads to an unusual spiritual awakening in both men, and eventually reaches out to the entire community.

Against the pomp and pageantry of turbulent seventeenth century England, Elizabeth Goudge weaves the poignant tale of Lucy Walter, the proud and beautiful secret wife of Charles II. From her early childhood in a castle by the sea in Wales and the joys and pangs of childhood, to her tragic estrangement from the king and her death in Paris at the age of twenty-eight, Lucy Walter lived to the full a life of intense joy and equally intense drama. Miss...

Canon Gervas Leigh and his eight children in Oxford during the 16th century.

Left in the care of their strict grandmother, the four Linnet children find a much happier home with their Uncle Ambrose, his one-legged gardener, and the people of a small English Village, where they help explain an old mystery and restore the joy of old friends.

In 1842, thirteen-year-old orphan Maria Merryweather arrives at her ancestral home in an enchanted village in England's West Country, where she discovers it is her destiny to right the wrongs of her ancestors and end an ancient feud.