Hope Farm

By Peggy Frew,

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A devastatingly beautiful story about the broken bonds of childhood, and the enduring cost of holding back the truth.

“They were inescapable, the tensions of the adult world―the fraught and febrile aura that surrounded Ishtar and those in her orbit, that whined and creaked like a wire pulled too tight.”…

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1 author picked Hope Farm as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Hope Farm moved me so much because it conveys the bitter-sweetness of being thirteen, being privy to adults who make terrible choices, and having to adapt to the consequences of those choices. It is about parents who join cults (in this case, a hippy one) and the effects of this on their children. Peggy Frew has such a seductive and captivating way of engrossing the reader in the story through her stunning prose.  

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