Land of Green Ginger
Land of Green Ginger Joanna Burton was born in South Africa but sent by her missionary father to be raised in Yorkshire. At eighteen, tall and flaxen-haired, she meets Teddy Leigh, a young man on his…
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Land of Green Ginger
Joanna Burton was born in South Africa but sent by her missionary father to be raised in Yorkshire. At eighteen, tall and flaxen-haired, she meets Teddy Leigh, a young man on his way to the trenches of the First World War.Joanna has been in love before - with Sir Walter Raleigh, with the Scarlet Pimpernel, with Coriolanus - but this is different. There she dreams of the far-off lands she will visit and adventures to come.
Joanna believes him and marries him, but the fabled shores recede into the distance when, after the war, Teddy returns in ill health. Teddy tells her he's been given the world to wear as a golden ball. The magic land turns out to be the harsh reality of motherhood and life on a Yorkshire farm.
Yet still she dares to
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