That Summer at Hill Farm (Paperback)
Short Description for That Summer at Hill Farm Hill Farm is a rural idyll and the perfect retreat from urban life. Yet beneath the tranquil surface lie discontent, desire and death-watch beetles. Farmer Hayes loves the land - but hates farming. His neglected wife Isabel adores her three children, but is temperamentally unsuited to life as a wife and mother.
Full description- Publisher: VINTAGE
- Published: 04 June 2012
- Format: Paperback 304 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780099555131 ISBN 10: 0099555131
- Sales rank: 749,021
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Full description for That Summer at Hill Farm
To the casual outsider, Hill Farm is a rural idyll and the perfect retreat from urban life. Yet beneath the tranquil surface lie discontent, desire and death-watch beetles. Farmer Hayes loves the land - but hates farming. His neglected wife Isabel adores her three children, but is temperamentally unsuited to life as a wife and mother. The Smith sisters have not spoken to one another for forty years, farm-hand Mikey dabbles in pyromania, while neighbour Mr Payne has fled the city, only to find a greater threat to his karma in the hedgerows of Middle England. And after one incendiary summer, all of their lives will be different...It was originally published with the title "Hill Farm".

