There’s a beauty and an emotional truth to her prose which is enthralling. Sarah Vaughan has the ability to transport the reader to a different time and place with just a single word. The events surrounding Will and Alice in Cornwall in 1939 will have reverberations across the decades. My Review of The Farm at the Edge of the World When midwife Lucy almost makes a fatal error at work and her husband Matt doesn’t deny he is having an affair, Lucy returns to her childhood home in Cornwall where huge debts are threatening to destroy the family heritage. But above all it’s about a beautiful, desolate, complex place. This is a novel about identity and belonging guilt, regret and atonement the unrealistic expectations placed on children and the pain of coming of age.

Can she rebuild herself and the family farm? And can she help her grandmother, plagued by a secret, to find some lasting peace? Over 70 years on Alice is determined to atone for her behaviour – but has she left it too late?Ģ014, and Maggie’s granddaughter Lucy flees to the childhood home she couldn’t wait to leave thirteen years earlier, marriage over career apparently ended thanks to one terrible mistake. There they meet the farmer’s daughter, Maggie, and against fields of shimmering barley and a sky that stretches forever, enjoy a childhood largely protected from the ravages of war.īut in the sweltering summer of 1943 something happens that will have tragic consequences. The Farm at the Edge of the Worldġ939, and Will and Alice are evacuated to a granite farm in north Cornwall, perched on a windswept cliff. The Farm at the Edge of the World is published today, 30th June 2016, by Hodder and Stoughton and is available for purchase from Amazon, Waterstones, iTunes, W H Smith, all good bookshops and directly from Hodder.

My enormous thanks to Louise Swannell at Hodder for a copy of The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan in return for an honest review. Netgalley Advocate Netgalley General Data Protection Regulations

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