From the prize-winning author of In the Place of Fallen Leaves comes a beautiful, hypnotic pastoral novel reminiscent of Thomas Hardy, about an unexpected friendship between two children, set in Devon in 1911 1911. In a forgotten valley on the DevonSomerset border, the seasons unfold, marked only by the rituals of the farming calendar. Twelve-year-old Leopold Sercombe skips school to help his father, a carter. Skinny and pale, Leo dreams of a job on the estates stud farm. He is breaking a colt for his father when a boy dressed in a Homburg, breeches and riding boots appears. Peering under the strangers hat, he discovers Miss Charlotte, the Masters daughter. And so begins a friendship between the children, bound by a deep love of horses, but divided by rigid social boundaries boundaries that become increasingly difficult to navigate as they approach adolescence.
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Weight: 222g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 13 Jul 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781408876848
About Tim Pears
Tim Pears is the author of eight novels: In the Light of Morning In the Place of Fallen Leaves (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award) Wake Up Blenheim Orchard In a Land of Plenty (made into a ten-part BBC series) A Revolution of the Sun Landed (shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012 and the 2011 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize winner of the MJA Open Book Awards 2011) and Disputed Land. He has been Writer in Residence at Cheltenham Festival of Literature and Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University and has taught creative writing at Ruskin College and elsewhere. He lives in Oxford with his wife and children. www.timpears.com
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