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Long Marston-in-the-Mere is a medieval village set defiantly within a prehistoric stone circle. The cottages cluster round St Michael's Church corralled by the pressing monoliths. The place lies thus in This world while being reminded constantly both of the Next and the Other worlds. The village year culminates with the annual f?te and ritual dressing of the Holy well in the woods. The Rector does not encourage this pagan custom. The Archdeacon sees no harm. Superstitions abound, particularly the possibility of recovering Sir Tancred's treasure (guarded by a dragon.) It is known that anyone who takes the gold will reap the consequences. This is the story of the last f?te and the villagers who unearthed the truth behind the legends. Regrettably most of them have disappeared and those who survive are unlikely to speak of what they saw.
Quarry Lane is the lane in which John meets his future girlfriend Vivienne. Their relationship, like the flowers of the lane, blossoms and they look forward to a future of promises. But they reckon without the implications of a mining disaster which leaves Johns father crippled; he is also distraught, as he believes he has been the cause of the accident. The family begins to experience financial difficulties, with the result that John has to leave school and find work before he can complete his sixth form education. This spoils his chances of gaining the place at university that he is so keen to achieve. The repercussions are also significant for Johns relationship with Vivienne. Her mother, the wife of a bank manager, is strongly opposed to her daughter associating with a miners son. She is devastated by the news that her daughters boyfriend has had to take a job in the local mine and seemingly committed himself to a life in the red brick rows of a mining village. Determined to break up John and Viviennes relationship, she persuades her husband to send Vivienne abroad to a finishing school. The story explores sensitively the tough life of a Yorkshire mining family in the 1950s and how John strives to fulfil his responsibilities to his family. At the same time he seeks to overcome the opposition of Viviennes mother to his relationship with her daughter.