Blackthorn Winter
$39.43
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
3 February 2004
Summary
In April, when blackthorn blossom clothes the hedgerows like a wedding veil, there sometimes comes a frost so severe that it seems as if the summer will never come. Country people call this a blackthorn winter.
For Claudia Barron, arriving in the Dorset village of Court Barton that April, blackthorn winter seems like a metaphor for everything that has happened to her. Hiding from her previous life, she adopts an assumed name and applies for a job in the local school. But villages don’…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780755300389 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0755300386 |
| Author: | Sarah Challis |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Headline Review |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 3 February 2004 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 132mm x 23mm |
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Excellently-written, with a gripping ending
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 *
About The Author
Sarah Challis
Sarah Challis has lived in Scotland and California. She now lives in a Dorset village and is married with four sons.
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