This issue is very hard to find. This is an original 1936, first edition of this book. 418 pages. Book is Fairly tight and there is the number 40 written in pencil on first blank page along with a magazine article about the author. No markings outside of book. Book cover is a little faded from age as the pages are browning a bit. Normal shelf wear for a book of this age. No dust cover. One blank page with the words Part One has become seperated from spine. All other pages are intact. Some shelf wear along edges of hard cover and book has dust stained page ends. Spine is in good shape. Good+ condition. Story line is as follows... Jenny Hadley’s early years were spent in Mawne Heath, a barren, blighted environment on the verge of the industrial Midlands. Her father, a hard man given to drink and ‘womanising’, was a chain maker with his own forge behind the hovel in which the family lived. When her mother suddenly left home Jenny was sent to live with her grandfather and deeply devout Aunt Thirza in the depths of Werewood (Wyre Forest) in Worcestershire. Jenny was desperately lonely in the old cottage by the Gladden Brook but as the seasons passed she grew to love both her grandfather and the sprawling forest. Then in spring, when the cherry trees were thick with blossom, Uncle Jem came visiting with Cousin David. During the ensuing idyllic days Jenny’s heart was lost! A bond developed between the cousins but, apart from a second brief meeting, both cousins were to experience many twists of fortune before their paths crossed again.