{"product_id":"all-among-the-barleybooks","title":"All Among the Barley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the author of Costa-shortlisted and Baileys-longlisted \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt Hawthorn Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e comes a major new novel. Set on a farm in Suffolk just before the Second World War, it introduces a girl on the cusp of adulthood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFourteen-year-old Edie Mather lives with her family at Wych Farm, where the shadow of the Great War still hangs over a community impoverished by the Great Depression. Glamorous outsider Constance FitzAllen arrives from London, determined to make a record of fading rural traditions and beliefs, and to persuade Edie's family to return to the old ways rather than embrace modernity. She brings with her new political and social ideas – some far more dangerous than others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Edie, who has just finished school and must soon decide what to do with her life, Connie appears to be a godsend. But there is more to the older woman than meets the eye. As harvest time approaches and the pressures mount on the entire Mather family, Edie must decide whose version of reality to trust, and how best to save herself from disaster.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA masterful evocation of the rhythms of the natural world and pastoral life, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll Among the Barley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is also a powerful and timely novel about influence, the lessons of history and the dangers of nostalgia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harrison, Melissa","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":47580940632288,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/81p3EhF9oIL._UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1752350524","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/all-among-the-barleybooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}