Gladys, the Reaper

A rainbow crowns the June evening, but at the farm gate a girl lies so still that her fellow travellers fear she is dying. When the farm-lady bends over her, Gladys can manage only four words: “I am very tired, ma’am.”

In rural Carmarthenshire, Anne Beale sets a quiet farmstead against the hardship of Irish people travelling in search of harvest work. Gladys has come with them from Ireland, hoping to find her mother’s Welsh relations; now, worn out by the journey, she can scarcely lift her head. The compassionate Mrs. Prothero offers help, but kindness at the gate is only the beginning: Gladys must find a place among strangers, while poverty and suspicion shape the choices around her. Will this weary girl find the family—and the welcome—she has crossed a country to seek?

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