That Summer at Skylark Farm

@2@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.@3@@2@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?@3@@2@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?@3@@2@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.@3@

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Product details

• Authors: Sarah Vaughan, Vaughan Sarah
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.03.2016
• EAN: 9781444792294
• ISBN: 978-1-4447-9229-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 233 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Cornwall, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Family life fiction