When sweet; healthy hearty Holly Fox dies suddenly in childbirth; the Surrey village whose pearl she was reverberates with shock. She leaves behind her a helpless; silent husband; and a tiny daughter; Faith. Everyone assumes Holly's loving and capable mother Thomasina will look after Faith; but when she unaccountably deserts her newborn grandchild; the baby must be packed off to her father's peculiar family in the North - 'the very strangest people you ever saw my dear'. With wisdom; generosity; and understanding; Jane Gardam takes as her subject the English heart in all its eccentric variety. FAITH FOX sheds a clear; true light on the pain of bereavement whilst always offering the joyous possibility of a new beginning.