After Lydia Fielding celebrates her 21st birthday on her family farm, Milton Mains in Exmoor, due to her age there is then an expectation that she should marry. Lydia is being pursued by two young men with whom she has grown up - Gus Pascoe who wants to get his hands on the family farm and Wesley Peters who is from one of the local very strict Methodist families. Lydia has no current desire to marry anyone.
Lydia is summons by Lady Maud to help to look after her grand-daughters who are visiting for the summer. Initially she is nervous about this but soon finds that she enjoys the time spent teaching the girls about the local wild life and teaching them new skills.
Lydia's brother Alan is forced to marry Wesley's younger sister Marella and this causes further bad feeling between the two families. Eventually Lydia moves to Bristol to get away and start a new life.
I think I may have read a previous novel by Susan Sallis many years ago but do not remember which one it was. This novel reminded me of the style of a Catherine Cookson story.
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