How to Belong

Franklin, Sarah

£8.99

In the follow up to her acclaimed novel ‘Shelter’, Sarah Franklin returns to the Forest of Dean, this time exploring what it means to belong to a rural community in a rapidly changing world. Jo grew up in the Forest of Dean, but she was always the one destined to leave for a bigger, brighter future. When her parents retire from their butcher’s shop, she returns to her beloved community to save the family legacy, hoping also to save herself. But things are more complex than the rose-tinted version of life which sustained Jo from afar. Tessa is a farrier, shoeing horses two miles and half a generation away from Jo, further into the forest. Tessa’s experience of the community couldn’t be more different. Now she too has returned, in flight from a life she could have led, nursing a secret and a past filled with guilt and shame.

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Publish Date: 11/11/2021

Description

‘This atmospheric read is simply beautiful.’ Woman & Home How can home be found, when you are lost? When two very different women find themselves sharing a home, they must confront their pasts in order to work out who they each are, and how they will survive. Disillusioned with her high-flying London career, Jo has returned to the remote rural community of her childhood. Taking over her parents’ beloved butcher shop, she works hard to save the family legacy, hoping toalso save herself. Tessa has returned too, fleeing a chance of happiness to come to terms with a life filled with secrets and shame. Now her livelihood as a farrier is under threat from a mysterious and debilitating condition. How to Belong is a delicate, honest portrayal of unexpected friendship, the power of memory and what it trulymeans to come home. ‘This gentle, thoughtful novel will warm your heart and nourish your soul’ Red Magazine ‘(A) thoughtful, original novel . . . Detailed, descriptive, transporting prose.’ Adele Parks, Platinum Magazine ‘A big-hearted novel about how we learn to belong despite ourselves.’ Shelley Harris’It really touched me, I can’t stop talking about it. Your words spoke to somewhere deep inside me.’ Warwick Books

Additional information

Weight 269 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 21 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

358

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K