Fairfield Gardens is an idyllic road in an idyllic English village whose
inhabitants work, play, worship, squabble and battle with the usual
family, health and business worries from day to day. Very little
changes as the seasons go by, until Anthony Hawton, long-lost son
of the local farmer, returns from Australia to visit the village of his
birth. His plans change when he encounters Joy Taylor, a pretty
teacher at the village school...
Christine Thorpe, an Englishwoman now living and working in
Australia, began to write Fairfield Gardens during her recovery
from illness. As the story...