![]() ![]() 'Peggy Frew is an amazing writer.Elegant, tender and very wise. A spellbinding novel in the tradition of Helen Garner, Charlotte Wood and Georgia Blain, Islands is a riveting and brilliant portrait of a family in crisis by the breathtakingly talented author of House of Sticks and Hope Farm. Helen waits three days to report her disappearance. ![]() When fifteen-year-old Anna fails to come home one night, her mother's not too worried Anna's taken off before but always returned. Hope Farm is based on a mothers travels to find happiness using her looks alone - taking her child along for the ride. Junie grows up brittle and defensive, Anna difficult and rebellious. Helen and John are too preoccupied with making a mess of their marriage to notice the quiet ways in which their daughters are suffering. And in the middle of it all you, very quietly, were gone. None of us was listening, or paying attention. Some of us wailed and shouted some of us barely made a sound. ![]() We draped ourselves in blame and disappointment and lurched around, bumping into each other. Hope Farm audio book CD / Peggy Frew narrated by Ailsa Piper and Taylor Owynns. There was a house on a hill in the city and it was full of us, our family, but then it began to empty. Hope Farm is the masterful second novel from award-winning author Peggy Frew, and is a devastatingly beautiful story about the broken bonds of childhood, and the enduring cost of holding back the. A stunning literary novel from the author of the Stella Prize shortlisted Hope Farm. ![]()
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