Catherine Chanter

The Well

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When Ruth Ardingly and her family first drive up from London in their grime-encrusted car and view The Well, they are enchanted by a jewel of a place, a farm that appears to offer everything the family are searching for. An opportunity for Ruth. An escape for Mark. A home for their grandson Lucien.But The Well's unique glory comes at a terrible price. The locals suspect foul play in its verdant fields and drooping fruit trees, and Ruth becomes increasingly isolated as she struggles to explain why her land flourishes whilst her neighbours' produce withers and dies. Fearful of envious locals and suspicious of those who seem to be offering help,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78211-607-3
EAN: 9781782116073
Produktnummer: 17186670
Verlag: Penguin Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 382 S.
Masse: H21.4 cm x B13.4 cm x D3.0 cm 417 g
Gewicht: 417

Über den Autor

Catherine Chanter was born and raised in the West Country. She has written for Radio Four and has had short stories and poetry published in a wide range of anthologies and publications. She won the Yeovil Poetry Prize in 2010. Catherine has a Masters, with distinction, in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes University. The Well is her first novel and won the 2013 Lucy Cavendish Prize for Unpublished Fiction.