The book has an Introduction by The Right Hon. Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947), three-time Prime Minister of Britain during the 1920’s and ’30’s. A compelling story of passion, with an enduring air of enchantment throughout, Precious Bane is a novel that haunts us with its beauty and its timeless truths about our deepest hopes. Set in Shropshire in the 1800s, it is alive with the many moods of Nature, benevolent and violent and the many moods—equally benevolent and violent—of the people making lives there.