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This is another story by Amy Walton about life in the English countryside towards the end of the nineteenth century. It is a sequel to The Hawthorns, except that, for some reason, the name has become Hawthorne. On the whole the principal dramatis personae, the Hawthorne household, are unchanged. The additions are Miss Barnicroft, an eccentric old lady from the village; Kettles, an impoverished child from Nearminster, the cathedral city close by; Dr Budge, a learned old man in the village, who