#BookReview: All Among The Barley by Melissa Harrison
Title: All Among The Barley Author: Melissa Harrison Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Published on: 23rd August 2018 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781408897997 The fields were eternal, our life the only way of things, and I would do whatever was required of me to protect it. BLURB From the author of Costa-shortlisted and Baileys-longlisted At Hawthorn Time comes a major new novel. Set on a farm in Suffolk just before the Second World War, it introduces a girl on the cusp of adulthood. Fourteen-year-old Edie Mather lives with her family at Wych Farm, where the shadow of the Great War still hangs over a community impoverished by the Great Depression. Glamorous outsider Constance FitzAllen arrives from London, determined to make a record of fading rural traditions and beliefs, and to persuade Edie's family to return to the old ways rather than embrace modernity. She brings with her new political and social ideas –...