<span>A motif
within literature is a pattern that lends to the themes that may be found
within a story, within a poem, or within a novel. Within
the novel _Nectar in a Sieve_ by Kamala Markandaya, there is a motif of change,
and the motif of change exists when the family of Nathan is forced to move off
the land because it was sold.</span>
I think it might be: Hilda Annersley, Headmistress by Lesley Green