Orchard On Fire: A Novel
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0156005328 / Publisher: Harvest Books, November 1997
Growing up in a picturesque but provincial English village in the fifties, eight-year-old April Harlency befriends an Irish girl who suffers the town's bigotry and a lonely bachelor who presses his affections on her
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<div>Set in the small English village of Stonebridge, the Orchard on Fire tells the story of eight-year-old April Harlency's coming-of-age in a place where the charm of the local landscape contrasts sharply with the predjuices and vagaries of the adult world. When April encounters the red-haired, energetic Ruby Richards, the two girls become fast friends. Together, they abandon the physical and mental abuse forced on them by adults in their lives and transform an abandoned railway car in an orchard into their secret hideaway, an idyllic camp of shared dreams.<br></div>
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