Long Ago at the Horse Fayre

A historical romance set in Boughton, England, and Dublin, Ireland 1846. Boughton Horse Fayre continued from 1353 to 1914 and its fame spread far and wide. Local villagers and itinerant Irish gypsies alike used it for trading and racing horses.

Belle, the village baker’s daughter, overprotected and kept hidden away by her parents who desperately want to pair her off with the local butcher’s boy, Saul, meets Emmett in the village, a working Irish gypsy and groom at the fayre. After falling in love, they elope together to Ireland to escape Belle’s forced marriage.

However, a blissful life does not follow and faced with many more hurdles, will true love conquer all? Belle’s future happiness hangs by a thread.

Chris Weatherley lives in the beautiful and ancient village of Boughton near Northampton. For the past 25 years she's been involved as HR and Financial Director of our family businesses, RW Data and Northampton Science Park, which has been an interesting and fulfilling experience.