The farm at the edge of the world
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The farm at the edge of the world
Resource Information
The work The farm at the edge of the world represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- The farm at the edge of the world
- Statement of responsibility
- Sarah Vaughan
- Subject
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- Families -- Fiction
- Family farms -- Fiction
- Grandmothers -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Atonement -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- England | Cornwall (County) -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- England | Cornwall (County) -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- QRML
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Target audience
- adult
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