The Lamplight and the Stars Author:Eric Malpass Nathan Cranswick?s third child comes into the world on the day of Queen Victoria?s Diamond Jubilee. Whilst the Empire celebrates, Nathan?s concerns are about his family?s future. A gentle and wise preacher, he gratefully accepts the chance to move from the dingy, cramped house in Ingerby to the village of Moreland when he is offered a job on the... more » splendid Heron estate. Anticipating peace and tranquillity for his wife and young family, his hopes are cruelly dashed when their new life is beset by problems from the beginning. A family scandal and the Boer War menace their whole future, but finally it is the agonising choice facing his gentle daughter which threatens to tear the family apart?« less