The Star-Gazers
The Star-Gazers
In the shadowed woods of rural England, gamekeeper Ben Hayle tends his beats with a weathered certainty that masks something harder to name. His daughter Judith moves through the same landscapes, but her world is more complicated: she carries the memory of Caleb Kent, a young man who left the village and has now returned, stirring up old feelings and old conflicts. As Ben prepares for his day among the coppices and coverts, tension hums between father and daughter a conversation that reveals Judith's troubled history with Caleb, and hints at the choices she may yet have to make. Captain Robert Rolph enters the picture with social expectations of his own, adding another layer of complication to Judith's already fractured heart. Set against the rhythm of the English countryside and its seasonal cycles, this is a novel about what we owe family versus what we owe ourselves, and how the past arrives uninvited to claim what it left behind.
