A Rooted Sorrow

About the Book

When John Hume leaves England and takes a teaching job at the Benjamin Thompson School in New York City, it is with the object of shedding a load of guilt that he has carried for twenty-fi ve years. It doesn’t work, however, as he continues to be haunted by his old sorrow and becomes a suspect in the death of a young girl under circumstances eerily reminiscent of the incident that he is trying to forget. While coping with the tangled relationships within a deeply troubled school, he becomes involved with a much younger woman who knows nothing of his past. He faces another excruciating decision—should he stay in New York and try to work things out, or cut his losses and return to England.

About the Author

Keith Francis has a master’s degree from Cambridge University. He worked as an engineer in the guided weapons department at Bristol Aircraft before joining the teaching profession and settling in New York City. His publications include Death at the Nave, The Place of a Skull, Th e Education of a Waldorf Teacher and Rudolf Steiner and the Atom. He is married, with two children, and divides his time between New York City and the Southern Berkshires of Massachusetts.