num_pages: 320
description: The Rosemary Tree is heart-warming and inspiring, full of the compassion, understanding, and humor about people and situations for which Miss Goudge is so famous. It tells the story of John Wentworth, forty-four year old, vicar of Belmaray, his wife Daphne, forty, of their three daughters, Pat, nine, Margary, eight, and Winkle, five. It is the story also of Michael Stone and lovely young Mary O'Hara, Michael who had once loved Daphne and who came to Belmaray from prison, Mary who taught the little girls in a hateful school.John Wentworth was charming, vague, warm-hearted, and blundering in his emotions. He felt things intensely and would become hopelessly distressed over trivialities. Quite the opposite was Daphne, efficient and lacking in the love for him which John deserved.There are other characters, marvelously drawn; old Harriet, the Wentworth's housekeeper, now crippled with arthritis, but a wise woman always; aged Aunt Maria, alone in the manor house eating up the money that Daphne thinks would be better devoted to her family; horrible Mrs. Belling, owner of the school; dyspeptic Miss Giles, teacher, at last made human by Mary O'Hara and John Wentworth; Orlando the marmalade cat, Baba, the overfed Peke, Josephine the prize pig, Walshingham the tail-thumping manor house dog.Miss Goudge's way with children and animals is famous on two continents and these new creations of hers are just as enchanting as any she has given us before.In The Rosemary Tree Elizabeth Goudge has written a rewarding and exciting story in the best tradition of her famous successes, Pilgrim's Inn and Gentian Hill.
language: English
title: The Rosemary Tree
titlecomplete: The Rosemary Tree
genres: Fiction, Historical, Christian Fiction, British Literature, Romance, Adult, Classics, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Christian
ratings_count: 699
publisher: Coward-McCann, Inc.