Lucy Carmichael

<p><b>Originally published in 1951 from the author of beloved holiday classic <i>The Feast </i>comes a glorious coming-of-age tale about a heroine whose wedding day does not go entirely to plan . . .<br></b><br>***<br><br><b>¿People seem to get over things, don¿t they? I don¿t know how, but they do ¿ ordinary people. I¿m very ordinary, so I expect I shall do what they do.¿</b><br>Lucy Carmichael is jilted at the altar. But no matter. Her loving and kind family never liked her explorer fianc¿nyway.<br>Instead of moping or falling into her supportive family¿s arms, however, Lucy abandons their suburban home. Heading for the country, she takes up a teaching position in the industrial town of Ravonsbridge.<br>There, she finds solace in her work, in her new (rather gossipy) colleagues ¿ and rediscovers her sensible young self.<br>But if Lucy has, despite everything, kept her head ¿ where lies her heart?<br><br><b><u>Praise for Margaret Kennedy:</u><br>''She is not only a romantic but an ana