The healing stream

"When a young girl is forced to uproot her city life to work on a farm, she finds unexpected happiness . . . and pain - 1955." When nineteen-year-old Tessa Richards beloved grandmother dies she is forced to live with her Uncle Richard and Aunt Naomi on their farm.

However, Deirdre, a bad-tempered girl who was disabled in a riding accident, flourishes under Tessa s guidance . . . and Tessa flourishes under the attention of a friend of Deirdre s father, the distinguished author Giles Lampton.

But it is a friendship that will cause heartache as well as happiness, and there are dark clouds on the horizon for them all . . ."