The Farm at the Edge of the World: The gorgeously evocative and unputdownable novel from bestselling author of ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL - Softcover

Vaughan, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444792296 ISBN 13: 9781444792294

Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton, 2016

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1939, and Will and Alice are evacuated to a granite farm in north Cornwall, perched on a windswept cliff. There they meet the farmer's daughter, Maggie, and against fields of shimmering barley and a sky that stretches forever, enjoy a childhood largely protected from the ravages of war. But in the sweltering summer of 1943 something happens that will have tragic consequences. A small lie escalates. Over 70 years on Alice is determined to atone for her behaviour - but has she left it too late? 2014, and Maggie's granddaughter Lucy flees to the childhood home she couldn't wait to leave thirteen years earlier, marriage over; career apparently ended thanks to one terrible mistake. Can she rebuild herself and the family farm? And can she help her grandmother, plagued by a secret, to find some lasting peace? This is a novel about identity and belonging; guilt, regret and atonement; the unrealistic expectations placed on children and the pain of coming of age. It's about small lies and dark secrets. But above all it's about a beautiful, desolate, complex place.

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Sarah Vaughan read English at Oxford and went on to become a journalist. After eleven years at the Guardian working as a news reporter, health correspondent and political correspondent, she started freelancing. THE ART OF BAKING BLIND is her first novel . Sarah lives near Cambridge with her husband and two small children.

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• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1444792296
• ISBN 13: 9781444792294
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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