The farm at the edge of the world / Sarah Vaughan.
Publication details: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2016.Description: 310 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781444792294 (paperback)
- 9781444792287 (hardback)
- Evacuation of civilians (1939-1945 : World War)
- World War (1939-1945)
- 1939-1945
- Families
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- England -- Cornwall (County) -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- England -- Cornwall (County) -- Fiction
- Atonement -- Fiction
- Atonement
- Children
- Family farms
- Grandmothers
- Secrecy
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- England -- Cornwall (County) -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- England -- Cornwall (County) -- Fiction
- Grandmothers -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Family farms -- Fiction
- Atonement -- Fiction
- England -- Cornwall (County)
- 823.92 23
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | VAU | Available | 067305 |
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.