Hope Farm
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
'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.'
It is the winter of 1985. Hope Farm sticks out of the ragged landscape like a decaying tooth, its weatherboard walls sagging into the undergrowth. 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.
At Hope, Silver finds unexpected friendship and, at last, a place to call home. 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.
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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Hope Farm feels so alive with the restlessness of the bush that we could almost hear the crickets chirrup and smell the incense of wood smoke on the air. Thirteen-year-old Silver is dragged from ashram to ashram by her young hippie mother, Ishtar, and a steady stream of her boyfriends and lovers. Silver and Ishtar have nothing to call their own except a few old duffel bags and an Indian bedspread—until one day Ishtar falls hard for a rogue named Miller. We absolutely loved Peggy Frew’s sparse, poetic prose, which brings the slow demise of the book’s mother-daughter relationship into sharp focus.
