# That Summer at Hill Farm

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- Authors: [Miranda France](https://www.bookquiver.com/miranda-france)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2012-05-03

## Description

To the casual outsider, Hill Farm is a rural idyll and the perfect retreat from urban life. Yet beneath the tranquil surface lie discontent, desire and death-watch beetles. Farmer Hayes loves the land - but hates farming. His neglected wife Isabel adores her three children, but is temperamentally unsuited to life as a wife and mother. The Smith sisters have not spoken to one another for forty years, farm-hand Mikey dabbles in pyromania, while neighbour Mr Payne has fled the city, only to find a greater threat to his karma in the hedgerows of Middle England. And after one incendiary summer, all of their lives will be different... Originally published with the title Hill Farm

## Editions

### That Summer at Hill Farm

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9955-513-1
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2012-05-03
- Language: en_GB