One of the authors I've discovered during my Covid reading is Elizabeth Goudge. I'm not sure how I managed to miss out on her books until now. She's a lovely writer. Her stories have depth and beautiful, rich language. What a treasure! If you're looking for a great read, try Pilgrim's Rest first. It is the second book in a trilogy but it stands alone well. I love the themes of beauty, home, and restoration that run throughout her books, of characters choosing truth even when it is very, very difficult.
"And then Lucilla knew what she was going to do with the rest of her life. She was going to build some sort of a refuge, somewhere, to which her children and her grandchildren could escape. Not a permanent escape; even in her grief she still knew that a selfish isolation is the sure road to hell; but that temporary one which is the right of every man. They were talking a lot just now about the war to end war, and a country fit for heroes to live in. She thought they deceived themselves. She had seen now what life could be, and what man could do when the devil was in him. She had not much hope of any wholesale change; only of the creation of isolated homes of beauty from which, please God, the loveliness should spread. Such a home would she make for her children and her grandchildren. They should come to it weary and sickened and go away made new. They should find peace there, and beauty, and the cleansing of the sins." The Bird in the Tree, pg 38-39.
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