The Poppy Path

'A kind of latterday Hardy of the fens' - REAY TANNAHILL 'A beautifully written new novel' - FIFE FREE PRESS It's 1920 and, the years of wartime rationing over, the inhabitants of the seaside resort of Shipden are turning again to the good things of life. The hottest news is that a new doctor has arrived in town: a handsome young man who would sweep any one of Shipden's many hopeful females off their feet. So when James Blanchard decides to marry pretty Rose Jordan the community is both shocked and outraged. Like many of the 'war widows' around her, Rose is an attractive, highly intelligent, single mother. But the scandalous difference is that Alec Taverner - the father of her four-year-old daughter - is still very much alive.