Dickinson followed The Weathermonger with Heartsease, and The Devil's Children. Heartease is set entirely in Gloucestershire, where two young cousins, Margaret and Jonathan, attempt to rescue an injured American sent into England to investigate the Changes.

Believing the American, like all outsiders, to be a "witch," the local citizens intend to use him in a sacrificial killing.

With assistance from Lucy and her brother Tim, Jonathan and Margaret effect a dramatic escape by tugboat down an abandoned manmade canal to the Severn River.

The Devil's Children portrays the initial phase of the Changes. The novel begins in London and describes how Nicola Gore, who has become separated from her family, is reluctantly taken on by a group of Indian Sikhs, who have not been affected by the social disorder. She travels with them as they search for a place in the English countryside where they can...