| Description |
310 pages ; c20 cm |
| 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 shimmering barley fields 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 out of all proportion. Over 70 years on Alice is determined to make amends - 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? |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Subject |
Farm life -- England -- Cornwall (County) -- Fiction.
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Deception -- Fiction.
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Families -- Fiction.
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Deception. |
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Families. |
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Farm life. |
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Cornwall (England : County) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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England -- Cornwall (County) |
| Genre |
Domestic fiction.
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Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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History.
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Historical fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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| ISBN |
1444792326 (paperback) |
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9781444792324 (paperback) |
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