'This atmospheric read is simply beautiful.' Woman & Home
How can home be found, when you are lost?
When two very different women find themselves sharing a home, they must confront their pasts in order to work out who they each are, and how they will survive.
Disillusioned with her high-flying London career, Jo has returned to the remote rural community of her childhood. Taking over her parents' beloved butcher shop, she works hard to save the family legacy, hoping to
also save herself.
Tessa has returned too, fleeing a chance of happiness to come to terms with a life filled with secrets and shame. Now her livelihood as a farrier is under threat from a mysterious and debilitating condition.
How to Belong is a delicate, honest portrayal of unexpected friendship, the power of memory and what it truly
means to come home.
'This gentle, thoughtful novel will warm your heart and nourish your soul' Red Magazine
'(A) thoughtful, original novel . . . Detailed, descriptive, transporting prose.' Adele Parks, Platinum Magazine
'A big-hearted novel about how we learn to belong despite ourselves.' Shelley Harris
'It really touched me, I can't stop talking about it. Your words spoke to somewhere deep inside me.' Warwick Books
Rezensionen / Stimmen
In this insightful, thoughtful novel about a farrier and a butcher, Franklin explores the meaning of home and the importance of belonging. It's replete with gorgeous descriptions of forest life * Carys Bray * A tender story about finding your place in the world, about ordinary lives, belonging and being brave. The kind of book that gives you hope and courage. I loved it. * Kit de Waal * Sarah writes intimately about the forest and the lives it sustains, exploring the human condition with forensic tenderness; we feel every step of Tessa and Jo's journeys. It's a big-hearted novel about how we learn to belong despite ourselves, and I relished every word * Shelley Harris, author of Jubilee * This set up - the farrier and the butcher - is so unusual, and so engaging. I was VERY curious to see how this relationship between Jo and Tessa would unfold, and Sarah Franklin's skilful weaving of their backstories into the captivating present keeps up a constant, subtle tug of intrigue, as well as thematic poignancy. It's thoughtful, and fresh, and such a vibrant setting. The place feels completely alive - I can walk through it and practically smell those horses, that forest, the butcher's shop, the woodsmoke. And the wider community is also wonderfully colourful and alive. It's just a pleasure to read! * Lucy Atkins * How to Belong is set in the Forest of Dean and is steeped in the spirit of the place. Such a warm and touching novel * Lissa Evans *
Sprache
Verlagsort
Maße
Höhe: 194 mm
Breite: 126 mm
Dicke: 26 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-78576-484-4 (9781785764844)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Sarah Franklin grew up in rural Gloucestershire and has lived in Austria, Germany, the USA and Ireland. She lectures in publishing at Oxford Brookes University and has written for the Guardian, the Irish Times, Psychologies magazine and The Pool.
