Tansy — Maureen Peters

The first volume in the Tansy Trilogy. Living in a village forty miles west of Dublin, Tansy's family find her yearning for freedom hard to understand. Raleigh Devereux, the English youth to whom Tansy first offers her heart, treats her as a plaything; Michael O'Faolain, for whom she has affection, but no love, never comprehends her need to be true to herself.

Not until disaster strikes the land, with the failure of the potato crop, do events conspire to bring Tansy face to face with reality, and with the complexities of her own nature.