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At Hawthorn Time
A Literary Fiction Novel by Melissa Harrison
Subgenres:
- Rural Fiction,
- Marriage-in-Crisis,
- Small-Town Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Rural Britain stories with outsiders searching for belonging
- Slow-burn literary fiction set over a single spring month
- Intersecting lives where love and loss shape every choice
From Little Stack
Over the course of a month in spring, several lives converge in a rural British community in this poignant novel. They include Kitty and Howard, a couple from London in a troubled marriage; Jamie, a young man with a passion for cars; and a mysterious farm worker named Jack. You’ll be turning pages to see what becomes of all four of them by the end.
This novel makes good use of its springtime setting, drawing you into the landscape and beginning each chapter with the names of plants and flowers alongside a botanical illustration.
Four-thirty 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 farm-worker 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 clear-eyed picture of rural Britain, and a heartbreaking exploration of love, land and loss.
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