![]() ![]() I was looking forward to exploring the relationship between Silver and her mother as they finally seemed to settle in one place, Hope Farm. ![]() When initially reading about this book, I was super intrigued to read about the almost nomadic lifestyle of the main character as she was growing up, moving from commune to commune and not really understanding the world around her as she went. 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 truth. But it is also here that, at just thirteen, she is thrust into an unrelenting adult world - and the walls begin to come tumbling down, with deadly consequences. Silver’s mother, Ishtar, has fallen for the charismatic Miller, and the three of them have moved to the rural hippie commune to make a new start.Īt Hope, Silver finds unexpected friendship and, at last, a place to call home. ![]() Hope Farm sticks out of the ragged landscape like a decaying tooth, its weatherboard walls sagging into the undergrowth. ‘They were inescapable, the tensions of the adult world - the fraught and febrile aura that surrounded Ishtar and those in her orbit, that whined and creaked like a wire pulled too tight.’ ![]()
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