To Kill for Love

The village chapel has no graveyard; villagers must go to rest in the churchyard two miles away. Many of the graves have headstones and those that haven't are neatly trimmed and in season have their jam-jars of flowers, but in a corner there's one grave with an unreadable headstone, overgrown with weeds and the grass never tended. A wild rose has seeded itself there and tries to ramble over the neglect. The identity of the remains that lie beneath are often pondered by those with romantic ideas.
Another of Winifred Foley's inimitable stories of life, death and love set in the Forest of Dean. She traces the lives of two generations who are touched with tragedy, but also raised by the heights of selfless love.