Description
Kate and Josh Hutchins have lived on Dancing Hill Farm in Dorset for thirty years. Here they have brought up three children, expected to grow old, and imagined they would pass the farm on to one of their boys, like generations of family before them. But things have not gone to plan. Neither of their sons wants the farm, their daughter is in love with a man with no real liking for the countryside, and Dancing Hill itself is no longer the profitable place it was once.
And Kate is restless. Longing for some time to herself, dreaming of what she might have achieved had she not married so young. When her children give her a week's painting holiday in Provence she seizes it like a lifeline, hardly realising what a dangerous thing it is that she is doing.
A warm, funny and poignant portrait of Dorset life from the author of BLACKTHORN WINTER
About the Author
Sarah Challis, whose father is the distinguished cinematographer, Christopher Challis, travelled widely with film units as a child. She has since lived in Scotland and California but is now happily settled in a Dorset village with three rescued dogs and three chickens. She is married with four sons.
Reviews
Praise for Sarah Challis's writing: 'I really enjoyed TURNING FOR HOME...I thought it so perceptive... I particularly enjoyed the very touching romance * Rosamunde Pilcher *
Excellently-written, with a gripping ending * Wiltshire Times *
Touching, funny and exciting * Blackmore Vale magazine *
Sarah Challis is becoming a novelist to be reckoned with * Dorset Life *
Her evocation of the English countryside is elegiac...a pleasure to read * Oxford Times *
Book Information
ISBN 9780755300396
Author Sarah Challis
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint Headline Review
Publisher Headline Publishing Group
Weight(grams) 328g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 131mm * 26mm