All Desires Known

All Desires Known... And from whom no secrets are hid. (from the collect before Communion in the 1928 edition of the Book of Common Prayer.)Lay out your classic English village in a little bowl-shaped valley: youll need a church village hall couple of farms row of council houses old rectory and a river.Take the following ingredients: One disaffected vicarOne vicars wife rural-life-fantasistA jobbing gardener and log manThe gardeners mother (who happens to be the vicars ex)The gardeners sisters: one young and bright one a recovering addict and single mumThe vicars mother: a frail but wise old birdOne actor-falling-on-hard-times (who once dated the vicars wife)One village churchA bitter church wardenPour all of the above into the village and stir. All Desires Known is a story about country life. Not chocolate-box-perfect with roses round the door this is chick-lit for grown-ups and the first in a series to be set in and around the villages strung along the fictional river Hindle.