Book
Amy & Lan : a novel / Sadie Jones.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063240902 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 312 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in the United Kingdom by Chatto & Windus in 2022. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Children > Fiction. Communal living > England > Fiction. Communities > Fiction. Country life > England > Fiction. Families > England > Fiction. Farm life > England > Fiction. Friendship > Fiction. West Country (England) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Bildungsromans. Domestic fiction. Humorous fiction. Novels. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stroud Branch | FIC Jones | 31681010288355 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood, growing up on a West Country farm--with three families, a couple of lodgers, goats, dogs, and an orphaned calf called Gabriella Christmas. The parents are best friends, too. Originally from the city, they're learning about farming: growing their own vegetables, milking the goats, slaughtering chickens, and scything the hay-- "Mind your eyes! Careful, that's sharp! Don't break your neck!" The grown-ups are far too busy to keep an eye on the children, and Amy and Lan would never tell them about climbing on the high barn roof, or what happened with the axe that time, any more than their parents would tell them the things they get up to--adult things, like betrayal--that threaten to bring the whole fragile idyll tumbling down."--Dust jacket flap. - Baker & Taylor
Amy and Lan grow up in a seemingly perfect, pastoral life on a 78-acre English farm, but discover the adults have secrets, in the new novel by the author of the acclaimed, best-selling novel The Uninvited Guests. 25,000 first printing. - HARPERCOLL
The author of the highly acclaimed, bestselling novel The Uninvited Guests returns with a captivating coming of age story told by Amy and Lan, two children whose journey from innocence to moving experience is shaped by their families' attempt at the pastoral dream on a farm, deep in the English countryside.
âThe very first thing I remember is standing on the water-butt in the garden, with my Mum holding me to stop me falling, singing 'I'm On Top of the World' , and the smell of the new wood in the hot sun. And something do with Mum's silver necklace. Amy doesn't remember any of that. Her very first memory is our wolfhound Ivan knocking her over in a puddle. Or it might be eating a boiled egg, and looking at the daisies on her kitchen tablecloth.â
Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood ever. They live on a 78-acre farm in the South West of England, with sisters and brothers, other kids, chickens, goats, three dogs, and even a calf, called Gabriella Christmas.Â
âHoneys in the Farmhouse, Connells in the Cowhouse, Hodges in the Carthouse . . .â
The three sets of parents are best friends who came to Frith from the city, and are learning, year after year, how to farm the land.
Free and unsupervised, Amy and Lan play with axes and climb on haystacks, but there is grownup danger at Frith they don't see. It's Gail, Lan's mother, and Adam, Amy's father who should be more careful. They should learn what kids know: never to play with fire.
