'The Laurel Walk' is a romance-drama novel written by Mrs. Molesworth. The story unfolds by introducing us to our heroine, Betty Morion as she stands waiting for her sister Frances on the door-step of a chemist shop in the middle of a rainy night.

Reproduction of the original: The Laurel Walk by Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth

Journey into the Blue Ridge Mountains of 1918 where Laurel McAdams endures the challenges of a hard life while dreaming things can eventually improve. But trouble arrives in the form of an outsider. Having failed his British father again, Jonathan Taylor joins is uncle’s missionary endeavors as a teacher in a two-room schoolhouse. Laurel feels compelled to protect the tenderhearted teacher from the harsh realities of Appalachian life, even while his stories of life outside the mountains pull at Laurel’s imagination. Faced with angry parents over teaching methods, Laurel’s father’s drunken rages, and bad news from England, will Jonathan leave and never return, or will he stay and let love bloom?