Fairfield Gardens is an idyllic road in an idyllic English village whoseinhabitants work, play, worship, squabble and battle with the usualfamily, health and business worries from day to day. Very littlechanges as the seasons go by, until Anthony Hawton, long-lost sonof the local farmer, returns from Australia to visit the village of hisbirth. His plans change when he encounters Joy Taylor, a prettyteacher at the village school...Christine Thorpe, an Englishwoman now living and working inAustralia, began to write Fairfield Gardens during her recoveryfrom illness. As the story developed and the characters becamemore and more real, she decided to publish it as a novel