Author: Goudge, Elizabeth, 1900-1984 (Keywords)

The first in the trilogy about the Eliots of Dameroasehay. The tranquil, happy existence of this close-knit family seems suddenly threatened when David and Nadine fall in love with one another.

Lucilla has spent a lifetime making the Hampshire estate of Damerosehay a tranquil haven for the Eliot family. But when her favourite grandson falls in love with a woman she feels is unsuitable, she sees her most cherished ambitions put at risk.

Lucilla has spent a lifetime making the Hampshire estate of Damerosehay a tranquil haven for the Eliot family. But when her favourite grandson falls in love with a woman she feels is unsuitable, she sees her most cherished ambitions put at risk.

In the summer of 1940, as the darkest days of the Second World War approach, a chance encounter on a train leads Miss Brown to become housekeeper at the Castle. Hidden in a quiet, rural corner of England, the crumbling castle is home to lonely historian Mr Birley and his nephews, fighter pilot Ri...

The third of Elizabeth Goudge's trilogy of novels about the Eliots of Damerosehay. David Eliot finds his career as a successful and much-acclaimed actor a definite strain, and his brittle conversation and seeming arrogance earn him the dislike of his new secretary Sebastian Weber.

The most vital and successful of the Eliots, David is the natural head of the family. But the memory of a former affair casts a shadow over his happiness, and it takes the peace and tranquillity of the family home to enable him to embrace the future.

Still tormented by the failure of her affair with David Eliot, Nadine has misgivings about bringing her family to the old inn that is so near to the Eliot family home. This is the second classic trilogy of novels about the Eliots of Damerosehay.

Bored with the distractions of London, Judy Cameron insists on taking herself, her parents and her fiance to remote Glen Suilag in the Scottish Highlands. Leaving behind the busy whirl of the capital, she becomes absorbed in an unknown and yet strangely familiar world. As Judy explores the house ...