TheWhisperingFables
She came to Kembleford to leave the past behind. The past, as it turned out, had already arrived.
Eleanor Hawthorne, twenty-four years old, fluent in a lot of languages, and in possession of secrets she never wants to explain. Raised in orphanages and foster homes, shaped by the war, and quietly converted to a faith that finally gave her somewhere to breath. She packed her camera equipment and her very carefully constructed fresh start and taken the road to a village in the Cotswolds where nobody knows her name.
Kembleford welcomes her. Father Brown sees her. Mrs. McCarthy feeds her. Lady Felicia takes her under a very elegant wing. And Sidney Carter charming, watchful, and constitutionally incapable of minding his own business, cannot quite decide what to make of her.
Across twelve stories, Eleanor Hawthorne unravels the mysteries of Kembleford one photograph at a time and discovers, rather against her will, that starting over and leaving the past behind are not always the same thing.
A Father Brown fan fiction. Book One of the Eleanor Hawthorne series. Set after Season One. Eleanor Hawthorne is an original character. Slow burn. Found family. And yes, the tea is very decent.