Set on a 19th century farm in rural Lancashire near Liverpool this heartwarming saga is the story of Poppy Appleton a girl who grew up in ignorance and poverty but has been adopted by a prosperous farmer's wife.
 At Long Reach farm Eliza Goodall teaches Poppy all the skills she would have passed on to her own daughter: the skills that would enable a young lady to become the mistress of a farm just like Long Reach. And when the time comes for Eliza's son Richard to choose a wife it seems only natural that he should choose Poppy.
 But though she feels nothing but affection for Richard and all her new family the only man for whom she has ever felt love is an Irish boy Conn MacConnell. And when he returns unexpectedly Poppy has to choose between loyalty and love.
Audrey Howard was born in Liverpool in 1929. Before she began to write she had a variety of jobs among them hairdresser model shop assistant cleaner and civil servant. In 1981 she wrote the first of her novels when she was out of work and living in Australia. There are now more than twenty and her fourth The Juniper Bush won the Boots Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 1988. She now divides her time between her childhood home St Anne's on Sea Lancashire and a home in the Yorkshire Dales.
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