THE APPLE TREE SAGA by Mary E. Pearce (3-Book Box-Set) 1978

THREE APPLE TREE SAGA by Mary E. Pearce (Boxset)

1) APPLE TREE LEAN DOWN.

Life is hard enough for countryfolk in the 1880s. And is it doubly hard for spirited younf Beth Tewke when she defies her well-to-do grandfather to live in poverty with Jesse Izzard, the man she loves.

Beth and Jesse make do, and have much to be thankful for. Their clever daughter Betony grows up to a more challenging world - of education, of cities, of ambitions her parents never dreamed of. But the call of home is always strong in her: the joys, the tragedies; ther tenderness - and the harshness - of life close to the soil.

 

2) JACK MERCYBRIGHT

When Jack Mercybright first comes to Brown elms Farm, shortly before the turn of the century, he has hardly a penny left in his pocket. All he has is the tenaious pride of a man who knows his job and will not see it ill-done.

In Philippa Guff, owner of Brown Elms, he confronts a hayghty woman who has spolied her inheritance by vanity and refusal to listen to advice. And in Nenna, Philippa's young half-sister, he finds a love which brings profound joy - and, before his story is over, terrible loss.

 

3) THE SORROWING WIND.

The First World War will soon have changed for ever the slow, familiar life country folk such as the Izzards and the Mercybrights have known for centuries.

For young me like Tom Maddox and the Izzard brothers, war means enlistment and the hell of the trenches; for Betony Izzard, it means new challenges, new responibilities; and for Linn Mercybright, now a pretty young woman, comes a chance meetying that binds her close to the Izzards - in suffering and joy.

Three paperbacks published in the 1970s here in one boxset.