Daneclere Author:Pamela Hill This is a novel of three families in 17th century England and Scotland. At the center is Honor Sawtrey - wise, kind and steady, a good wife, suffering mother, enduring widow, and then, late in life, wife and mother again. The author paints unforgettably the special cruelties of the Civil War, and the hardship;s and satisfaction of manor life t... more »hree hundred years ago. We see too the bizarre passions and sexuality of the time -- an era of child abuse, open prostitution, and covert affairs among the gentry. It is a tale spread over sixty absorbing years, and by its last page we feel we know the Sawtreys, the Thwaites and the Farmiloes with the same intimacy, attraction ad anguish we feel for families of our own.« less