Spring Will Come Again

Conyngton #2

by Sylvia Thorpe

Treacherous Jonas Shenfield, Charity's cousin and guardian, wants two things. To prevent Charity's marriage to her beloved, Sir Darrell Conyngton, and to destroy the Conyngton estate. He also wants desperately to prove that Darrell is part of a dangerous conspiracy against the government.

Charity knows that Jonas will not rest until he has somehow ruined her life and Darrell's. What she does not know is that Jonas has already planned to marry her off to his villainous servant, Stotewood, who has been lusting after Charity.

Now Darrell and Charity conspire to outwit Jonas - knowing full well that to fail means death...

Genres: Historical Romance, Regency

223 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 12, 1977

About the author

June Sylvia Thimblethorpe was born in 1926 in London, England. Educated in London at a school in Brondesbury, Kilburn High School for Girls, Slade School of Fine Arts, and University College. She worked as secretary from 1949 to 1952 and later she worked as school teacher.

As Sylvia Thorpe, she wrote over 25 historical romance novels from 1950 to 1983. Her novel "The Scapegrace" (1971) won the Elizabeth Goudge Historical Award. She was the third elected Chairman (1965-1967) of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and was named a Honor Life Member of the organization.

Sylvia is now a trustee for the Goodrich Village Hall Trust. Goodrich is a village, in south Herefordshire which is very close to Gloucestershire and the Forest of Dean situated near the River Wye and is famous for its old red sandstone Norman and medieval castle.

Reviews

[Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Conyington series continues with Spring Will Come Again, and our story starts with the gleeful pronouncement that King Charles I is dead. Charity Shenfield, an ardent Royalist, lives under the iron thumb of her vindictive Roundhead cousin Jonas Shenfield. She longs to marry Darrell Conyngton, but the Civil War has left Darrell barely clinging to his ruined estate, and Jonas' wrath against the Conyington family will never allow the two lovers to marry.

Once again, Thorpe has crafted a well written and entertaining story of the English Civil War period, as it follows the lives and loves of Charity and Darrell and introduces a new character, Tom Pennan, who will feature primarily in the 3rd book of the series, The Changing Tide:



Fun reading!

[JANE · Rating 4 out of 5]

Part Two of Sylvia Thorpe's Conyngton series, this features Charity, a mistreated orphan from a Roundhead family, and Sir Darrell, the last survivor of a fiercely Royalist family. Great period piece set in a little village divided along the fault lines of England's civil war. This is one I re-read every couple of years.

[Frances · Rating 3 out of 5]

She was too controlling and he was too willing to be controlled.