Call Home The Heart (English Edition)

Despite being at odds with her cold and remote father, Isaac Spencer, rector of the Peak District village of Hartswell, seventeen-year-old Constance, his only child, is full of exciting plans for her future. The world is hovering on the brink of war, the suffragettes are on the march and she doesn’t mean to be left behind. Desperate for her father’s love, she has long since given up hope of receiving it and other than Peg, the rectory housekeeper and Laurie Beck, a lowly hill farmer and Constance’s childhood friend, there is little to keep her in Hartswell. She and Laurie share a tragic secret from their childhood, involving a starving fox Laurie has fed and saved from certain death. Constance dreads telling him that she is leaving but just as she’s on the point of doing exactly that, she suffers a catastrophic and life-changing event, a happening beyond her control that destroys her equilibrium and all her deeply cherished hopes.