← Sheila Kaye-SmithJoanna Goddenby Sheila Kaye-SmithNovel of a woman farmer's independence and romantic struggles in SussexFind on Amazon↗About the authorSheila Kaye-SmithKaye-Smith was a major regional novelist of the Sussex Weald, whose fiction of farming communities and religious conflict earned comparisons with Hardy. Her conversion to Catholicism gave her later work a distinctive spiritual dimension.More by Sheila Kaye-SmithSussex GorseNovel of agricultural life and family ambition in the Sussex countryside→The End of the House of AlardNovel tracing the rise and fall of a wealthy Sussex family→Green Apple HarvestNovel of pastoral life and romantic complications in rural England→Tamarisk Town→