<p>All Desires Known&hellip; <em>And from whom no secrets are hid.</em> (from the collect before Communion in the 1928 edition of the Book of Common Prayer.)</p>

<p>Lay out your classic English village in a little bowl-shaped valley: you&rsquo;ll need a church, village hall, couple of farms, row of council houses, old rectory, and a river.</p>

<p>Take the following ingredients:</p>

<p>One disaffected vicar</p>

<p>One vicar&rsquo;s wife, rural-life-fantasist</p>

<p>A jobbing gardener and log man</p>

<p>The gardener&rsquo;s mother (who happens to be the vicar&rsquo;s ex)</p>

<p>The gardener&rsquo;s sisters: one young and bright, one a recovering addict and single mum</p>

<p>The vicar&rsquo;s mother: a frail but wise old bird</p>

<p>One actor-falling-on-hard-times (who once dated the vicar&rsquo;s wife)</p>

<p>One village church</p>

<p>A bitter church warden</p>

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<p>Pour all of the above into the village and stir.&nbsp;</p>

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<p><em>All Desires Known</em> is a story about country life. Not chocolate-box-perfect with roses round the door, this is chick-lit for grown-ups, and the first in a series to be set in and around the villages strung along the fictional river Hindle.</p>

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