Thompson Flora Jane. Still Glides the Stream

2009.Miss Charity Finch returns to her village Restharrow following an absence of 24 years.
It's now post-World War II, but the sleepy little village has hardly changed at all since her childhood in the 1880s. Only the faces have changed. So many people she once knew and loved are now lying under the tall unkempt grass in the churchyard.
As she walks the meadow path she remembers those long-ago days of her youth. There were moments of fun like the flower show and weddings, and moments of sadness when death came. There was, of course, petty gossip and poverty. Through it all, they were a close family and a tight community. As Charity grew from a girl into a woman she realized her hopes and dreams lay outside of the village she always called home.