SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 Fourthirty 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 farmworker 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.Building to an extraordinary climax over the course of one spring month, At Hawthorn Time is both a cleareyed picture of rural Britain, and a heartbreaking exploration of love, land and loss.

Binding: Paperback;288 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: FA; Weight: 320 g; Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 18

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