← Sheila Kaye-SmithSussex Gorseby Sheila Kaye-SmithNovel of agricultural life and family ambition in the Sussex countrysideFind 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-SmithThe End of the House of AlardNovel tracing the rise and fall of a wealthy Sussex family→Joanna GoddenNovel of a woman farmer's independence and romantic struggles in Sussex→Green Apple HarvestNovel of pastoral life and romantic complications in rural England→Tamarisk Town→