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All Among the Barley


A Literary Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Historical Fiction,
  • Rural Fiction,
  • Coming-of-Age
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • English countryside life under threat in the 1930s
  • Outsiders stirring up small village traditions
  • Young protagonists facing adult secrets and shifting loyalties
Publisher Description

The fields were eternal, our life the only way of things, and I would do whatever was required of me to protect it.

The autumn of 1933 is the most beautiful Edie Mather can remember, though the Great War still casts a shadow over the cornfields of her beloved home, Wych Farm.

When charismatic, outspoken Constance FitzAllen arrives from London to write about fading rural traditions, she takes an interest in fourteen-year-old Edie, showing her a kindness she has never known before. But the older woman isn't quite what she seems.

As harvest time approaches and pressures mount on the whole community, Edie must find a way to trust her instincts and save herself from disaster.

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