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 fiancé anyway.<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 anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed'</b> Anita Brookner<br><b>'Kennedy was immensely popular in her heyday' </b><i>Washington Post</i><br><b>'Margaret Kennedy's poised style, cool wit and skilful characterization kept her novels welcome for three decades' </b><i>Cambridge Guide to Literature in English </i></p>