The Farm at the Edge of the World, Sarah Vaughan
The Farm at the Edge of the World, Sarah Vaughan
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The Farm at the Edge of the World
from the author of Anatomy of a Scandal and Based on a True Story

Author: Sarah Vaughan

Narrator: Clare Corbett

Unabridged: 10 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/30/2016

Synopsis

1939, and Will and Alice are evacuated to a granite farm in north Cornwall, perched on a windswept cliff. There they meet the farmer's daughter, Maggie, and against fields of shimmering barley and a sky that stretches forever, enjoy a childhood largely protected from the ravages of war.

But in the sweltering summer of 1943 something happens that will have tragic consequences. A small lie escalates. Over 70 years on Alice is determined to atone for her behaviour - but has she left it too late?

2014, and Maggie's granddaughter Lucy flees to the childhood home she couldn't wait to leave thirteen years earlier, marriage over; career apparently ended thanks to one terrible mistake. Can she rebuild herself and the family farm? And can she help her grandmother, plagued by a secret, to find some lasting peace?

This is a novel about identity and belonging; guilt, regret and atonement; the unrealistic expectations placed on children and the pain of coming of age. It's about small lies and dark secrets. But above all it's about a beautiful, desolate, complex place.

(P) 2016 Hodder & Stoughton

About Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Vaughan read English at Oxford and went on to become a journalist. After training at the Press Association, she spent eleven years at the Guardian as a news reporter and political correspondent before leaving to freelance and write fiction. The Art of Baking Blind, published in the UK, US and seven languages, was her debut novel, and The Farm at the Edge of the World, a French bestseller, her second.Anatomy of a Scandal, her first courtroom drama/political thriller, became an instant international bestseller and Sunday Times top five bestseller. Translated into 23 languages, it was also filmed for Netflix as a six-part mini-series, written by David E Kelley, and starring Sienna Miller, Michelle Dockery and Rupert Friend.Little Disasters was a Waterstones thriller of the month, a kindle bestseller, and is in the process of being adapted for TV. Her fifth novel, Reputation, has just been optioned by the team that developed Anatomy of a Scandal for TV.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dale

Three and a half stars The book starts with a prologue about the farm before taking the reader to 2014 and an elderly woman who has just been given news that she has not long to live. Before she dies she wants to try and set some things right that happened seventy years earlier. The novel then shifts......more

Goodreads review by Myriam

Une entrée en matière assez poussive, tous les éléments de l'histoire prennent du temps à se mettre en place. Après l'avoir mis en pause au bout d'un tiers du livre, je lui ai donné une seconde chance et j'ai été agréablement récompensée. C'est une belle intrigue qui nous tient finalement en haleine......more

Goodreads review by Clarabel

J'ai savouré chaque minute de la lecture, aussi bien pour la promesse d'évasion qu'elle offre, mais aussi pour son histoire empreinte d'émotion et de sensibilité. J'ai eu la sensation de voyager, j'ai pris un plaisir fou à plonger dans le cadre sauvage et fascinant des Cornouailles, j'ai aimé partag......more

Goodreads review by Elaine

Skylark Farm is the farm set at “the edge of the world” on the Cornish Coast and has been farmed by the same family for six generations in this story set in two time frames; Now (2014) and Then (1943/1944). Alice and Will are evacuees on the farm during WWII where Maggie is the daughter of the famil......more

Quotes

[A] fabulous sense of place and a clever, compelling story Woman & Home

A beautifully evocative story of love, loss and forgiveness. You can taste, feel, see and hear Cornwall on every page as the characters pull you into their lives. Loved it.

You won't want this one to end Marie Claire

Absolutely loved it. Very rare I sit and devour 220 pages in one afternoon.

An evocative and page-turning story of love and heartbreak, written in beautiful and poignant prose that captivated me from first word to final page

Heartbreaking Woman Magazine

A wonderful book about love and loss through the eyes of three generations of Cornish women. Lovable, flawed, and so very human, each character had me rooting for them right until the very end. But it was the setting on the north Cornwall coast that makes me love this book: the weather, the seasons, the landscape, the house are all written so vividly that I could step into that place and instantly know my way around.

Sarah Vaughan not only writes beautifully but her stories and characters have a way of climbing into your heart and staying there long after you've turned the last page . . . Highly recommended!

A gorgeously evocative love letter to Cornwall and an unputdownable story. I devoured it.

A big-hearted story, and one that's full of love for the Cornish landscape. With the convincing detail about farming life, and intriguing past and present storyline, The Farm at the Edge of the World thoroughly transported me to the far western wilds, and made me very reluctant to leave again.

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