A chronicle of the love affairs of a beautiful but wayward upper-class English girl in a skating community in the English countryside.

Bates describes a single woodland year in this enchanting book.

The earliest of these stories, The Flame, was first published in 1926, having been written a year earlier, when I was twenty; the latest appeared in 1961. The i

Short comic novel about an unconventional English farmer and his attempts to snare a husband for his daughter.