

Called a beautiful novel by Salman Rushdie, this stunning debut tells the story of the summer of 1984, the year of a terrible drought in a Devon village. Told from the point of view of a farm family's 13-year-old daughter, the story is as strange and gripping as any by A.S. Byatt...


Selected by BOMC as a candidate for the Best First Fiction Award of 1995, this stunning novel has received wide acclaim. This captivating debut novel roams the dry valley or a rural English village during the summer drought of 1984, revealing lushness in simplicity and the awesome...


