The House in Dormer Forest
by Mary Webb
Deep in the Dormer Forest nestled in the valley lies Dormer's Old House, where the Drake family, Solomon and Rachel, live with their four adult children: the intense, idealistic Jasper, Ruby, beautiful but stupid, black-eyed Peter and strange, Amber, a girl with a love genius - and laughter. There, too, live the slanted eyes of his cousin Catherine, whose pleasure is to trap people's hearts. The entire great matriarch was shaken by Velindre's beaded gaze at the five young men in a series of love and happiness, with his religious texts and rebukes. As everyone's fate is revealed, it is Amber who is victorious: still on a June morning, a strange and noble man finds her under a flowering tree ...
