*Picked by the Guardian and Evening Standard as a Summer 2022 read* 'Fabulous: vivid and funny
sometimes heart-rendingly sad' Guardian 'Enchanting funny and layered in pathos... Sadie
Jones' unusual take on the rural dream is a gift of a book' Sarah Langford'No one conjures the
magic of place like Sadie Jones... A beautiful haunting novel about the limits of love and the
loss of innocence' Clare Clark ____________________ This is the story of how we came to Frith.
And we're never ever ever leaving.' Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood
growing up on a West Country farm - three families a couple of lodgers goats dogs and an
orphaned calf called Gabriella Christmas. The parents are best friends too. Originally from the
city they're learning about farming: growing their own vegetables milking the goats
slaughtering chickens and scything the hay-- 'Mind your eyes! Don't break your neck! Careful!'
The adults are far too busy to keep an eye on Amy and Lan and Amy and Lan would never tell
them about climbing on the high barn roof or what happened with the axe that time any more
than their parents would tell them the things they get up to - adult things like betrayal -
that threaten to bring the whole fragile idyll tumbling down... 'A gently episodic and humorous
tale whose sharp-eyed effervescent child narrators entertain... Beguilingly readable' Daily
Mail 'Jones's evocation of childhood is spot-on: its fierce passions disaffections loyalties
and suffering' Financial Times 'Mesmerising' Good Housekeeping *The 10 best books to read this
month*
