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An exquisite and intimate novel about four people’s lives and our changing relationship with nature - for fans of Jon McGregor and Robert Macfarlane"At Hawthorn Time is social satire, but also a political protest against the intensive and increasing privatisation of the countryside, and a love letter to the power of nature. " - The Times (UK)Four-thirty on a May morning: the black fading to blue, dawn gathering somewhere below the treeline in the east. A long, straight road runs between sleeping fields to the little village of Lodeshill, and on it, two cars lie wrecked and ravished, violence gathered about them in the silent air. One wheel, upturned, still spins.Howard and Kitty have recently moved to Lodeshill after a life spent in London; now, their marriage is wordlessly falling apart. Custom car enthusiast Jamie has lived in the village for all of his nineteen years and dreams of leaving it behind, while Jack, a vagrant farm worker and mystic in flight from a bail hostel, arrives in the village on foot one spring morning, bringing change. All four of them are struggling to find a life in the modern countryside; all are trying to find ways to belong.“A magical, hypnotically str

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Author

Harrison, Melissa

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781632860002

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Fiction