Fair to good A tenant farm in nineteenth century England provides the setting for this story of love, loss and redemption. --- Davy Armstrong struggles hard for his place at Cock Shield Farm. He finds himself at odds with the owner, a man of mordant temper and villainous pride, whom the gods humble by sending him a son, born crippled. Davy's trials include the love of two women. One he scorns, the other, marries. 280pp