Grey Wethers

[This novel] is a story about love and prejudice... [The book is about] Lovel and the heroine Clare. Lovel is a masculine, virile, free, gypsy type with two dogs at his heel. His mother is known as a witch and his brother, Olver, is perceived as simple and close to being the village idiot and yet he speaks truth throughout the story. Lovel is 28 years old and attractive--dark, tall and lean and wears a bright read shirt thoughout the story. He and the village believe his blood is tainted-- his mother and brother are proof of that--and although he would like children he believes he can't pass his bad blood on to further generations. He is clearly the soul-mate of 19 year old gentry woman, Clare. Friends since childhood they are happiest in each others company in the freedom and wilderness of the Wiltshire Downs--their spiritual home. But he rejects her once he hears village gossip about their close friendship. He will marry someone else for duty not for love. Clare is drawn with no definitive edges in relation to Lovel. They are equals despite their very different backgrounds. Class and prejudice mean nothing to them as friends; they never profess love (they don't have to) even when they run away together at the end of the story. --Phillysound2 at Amazon.com.