Precious Bane

Prue Sarn first saw Kester Woodseaves at a love spinning, and tried to forget that she was hare-shotten and accursed.

Incredibly, though, on a night when the corn shone and the dragon-flies rose above the mere, he came to meet her. And, after the firing of the harvest and the bitterness and violence that Gideon, her brother, brings to the family, only Kester can save Prue.

Mary Webb’s famous novel brings to life the Shropshire countryside that she so loved, and the slow, contained lives of men and women who struggled to keep pace with the seasons and do right by their age-old loyalties and beliefs