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Between town and country

The perpetual dilemma of where to live is explored in Melissa Harrison’s vibrant novel of roots and belonging

18 April 2015

9:00 AM

18 April 2015

9:00 AM

At Hawthorn Time Melissa Harrison

Bloomsbury, pp.280, £16.99

‘I nauseate walking; ’tis a country diversion. I loathe the country and everything that relates to it… Ah l’étourdie! I hate the town too.’ Millamant’s expostulation about the unresolved pull between rural and urban life has echoed down three centuries since The Way of the World. With Melissa Harrison’s second novel this quandary brings all the splendid, closely observed exposition that it did in her first, Clay.

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