All Among the Barley

In 1933, Edie Mather is fourteen years old and living on Wych Farm in the English countryside. Constance FitzAllen, a charismatic and outspoken writer from London, arrives to write about fading rural traditions and takes an interest in Edie. However, Constance isn't who she seems, and Edie must find a way to trust her instincts and save herself from disaster as harvest time approaches.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 07 March 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

‘A masterpiece’ JON MCGREGOR‘Impossible to forget’ THE TIMES‘Astonishing’ GUARDIAN‘Startling’ FINANCIAL TIMESWINNER OF THE EU PRIZE FOR LITERATURE'BOOK OF THE YEAR' NEW STATESMAN, OBSERVER, IRISH TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE The fields were eternal, our life the only way of things, and I would do whatever was required of me to protect it.The autumn of 1933 is the most beautiful Edie Mather can remember, though the Great War still casts a shadow over the cornfields of her beloved home, Wych Farm.When charismatic, outspoken Constance FitzAllen arrives from London to write about fading rural traditions, she takes an interest in fourteen-year-old Edie, showing her a kindness she has never known before. But the older woman isn’t quite what she seems.As harvest time approaches and pressures mount on the whole community, Edie must find a way to trust her instincts and save herself from disaster.

Weight: 248g
Dimension: 197 x 136 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781408897973