“It was a long, low, comfortable-looking house, hidden by lovely creeping plants, and sheltered at the back by the old elm trees in the paddock, and at the front by the apple trees in the orchard.
Perhaps it was because it had such a snug, cozy, restful look about it that it had been queerly christened Thankful Rest”.
Annie Shepherd Swan (1859 – 1943) was a Scottish journalist, novelist and a highly popular author of romantic fiction for young women during the Victorian era. She published more tha
n 200 novels, serials, short stories and other works of fiction.
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