So Long At The Fair: a compelling saga of one womans search for fulfilment that you wont be able to put down
By (Author) Jess Foley
Cornerstone
Arrow Books Ltd
15th February 2002
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Saga fiction (family / generational sagas)
Narrative theme: Love and relationships
823.92
Paperback
592
Width 110mm, Height 178mm, Spine 32mm
334g
Growing up in a small Wiltshire village, Abbie Morris knows what lies ahead of her - a life of drudgery as a menial servant, like that of her sisters. But everything changes when Abbie is twelve and their emotional, spirited mother casts them into a crisis for which no one is prepared. Six years later the Morris family have rebuilt their lives, and when Abbie and Beatie, Abbie's adored elder sister, set off for the county fair, the world seems a good place. But their new-found happiness is not to last. A chance encounter with Louis, a personable, handsome stranger, leads to tragedy and has repercussions that threaten to destroy Abbie's peace of mind for ever. Abbie struggles to forget what happened that night, to get on with her life, but when she meets charming, honourable Arthur - and reencounters. Louis - it becomes clear that she might never recover from the night they stayed so long at the fair...
Jess Foley was born in Wiltshire but moved to London to study at the Chelsea School of Art and then worked for several years as a painter and actor before writing So Long At The Fair. Jess lives in south London and is currently working on a new novel, Too Close To The Sun.