About This Book
The pupils at Fran Wood's school on West Forty-fourth Street in New York City were mostly Puerto Ricans, a challenge for Fran, who was a dedicated teacher. Indeed her pupils liked her so much that they were inconsolable when they learned that she was going to England for a year as an exchange teacher.
Fran hated to leave her pupils, but she also disliked leaving tall, blue-eyed Cliff Baxter, a teacher like herself, whom she planned to marry as soon as he got his M.A. degree. Somehow what had seemed like a gay adventure when she signed up now loomed as a shadow to threaten her secure life.
In Norchester, an ancient village in Suffolk, England, Fran was to live with the Charles Bellamy's, an elderly schoolmaster and his wife, in their charming cottage. Fran soon found that just about everything in Norchester was charming--including the handsome ex-teacher, Simon Grant, who offered her a lift to the Bellamys' when she couldn't find a taxi. The only fly in the ointment was the headmaster of her school, Robert Coates. A little man in more ways than stature, Coates was headmaster by virtue of having a cousin on the School Board, and he was determined that no one was to forget that he was headmaster.
Fran hated to leave her pupils, but she also disliked leaving tall, blue-eyed Cliff Baxter, a teacher like herself, whom she planned to marry as soon as he got his M.A. degree. Somehow what had seemed like a gay adventure when she signed up now loomed as a shadow to threaten her secure life.
In Norchester, an ancient village in Suffolk, England, Fran was to live with the Charles Bellamy's, an elderly schoolmaster and his wife, in their charming cottage. Fran soon found that just about everything in Norchester was charming--including the handsome ex-teacher, Simon Grant, who offered her a lift to the Bellamys' when she couldn't find a taxi. The only fly in the ointment was the headmaster of her school, Robert Coates. A little man in more ways than stature, Coates was headmaster by virtue of having a cousin on the School Board, and he was determined that no one was to forget that he was headmaster.