Sarah Lacey (AKA Meridon) is the main character of Meridon from the Wideacre trilogy.
Appearance[]
Sarah has long copper hair and green eyes. She is said to look similar to her grandmother/great-aunt, Beatrice Lacey.
Personality[]
Sarah is a quiet and modest young woman, who cares for others. She has a recurring dream about somewhere called Wide.
Sarah loves her younger adoptive sister very much. After her sister dies, she leaves the place it happened and rides in a direction which takes her to Wideacre.
She feels cold inside and unable to love.
She meets Lord Peregrine "Perry" Havering while riding early in the morning, as he stumbles home drunk. She feels a bond with him as he is also emotionally stunted.
Biography[]
Sarah was born to Richard and Julia MacAndrew (nee Lacey). Unknown to her, her parents were siblings and themselves were the product of sibling incest by Beatrice and Harry Lacey. Sarah was conceived after Richard raped Julia to break her will and prompt her to end her engagement to James. Upon learning the pregnancy, Richard offered to marry Julia to save her reputation, which she sadly agreed, but she came to regret her decision once she discovered he was not only killed many of her friends but also killed their surrogate parents John and Celia. Although Richard exhibited a deep interest in the pregnancy, Julia knew he was a danger to their child and, after Sarah's birth, she ordered Ralph to kill Richard and she handed Sarah over to a gypsy family to keep her away from Wideacre before dying herself.
James, who had learned of Sarah's existence through a letter after Julia's death, spends years searching for her. Sarah was renamed Meridon by her adoptive family and, despite their struggles, recalls having a loving family. When she becomes a teenager,
Meridon works for Robert Gower in his travelling circus, and they travel England. In the winter they go to his house north of Chichester and stay there. They train on the trapeze, and Meridon has a bad feeling. Her sister Dandi tries to trap Jack, Robert's son, in to marriage by getting pregnant.
Jack finds out she is pregnant and kills her on the trapeze, disguising it as an accident. Meridon is lost in grief and leaves with Sea, her horse.
She rides for a day or so, and finds Wide which is the place she has dreamed about for years.
She finds living in luxury stiffy and uncomfortable due to the expecations others have for her as the heir to the estate. She agrees to an arranged marriage to get control of Wideacre, but does not love her fiancé but thinks she will be happy with living at Wideacre. She is married to Perry Havering while she is deathly ill and delirious.
Perry gambles away the deeds to Wideacre. Sarah, disguised as a boy, uses her gypsy skills to card shark them back, but makes Will Tyacke (from the village) the winner
Sarah and Will return to Wideacre, and they live out their days