At the edge of the orchard
By: Tracy Chevalier
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: WF Howes Ltd
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Rearsby, Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781510046702
Subjects: Fruit growers; Fiction; Farmers; Frontier and pioneer life; History; Fruiticulteurs; Romans, nouvelles; Agriculteurs; Histoire
Description: What happens when you can't run any further from your past? Ohio, 1838. James and Sadie Goodenough have settled in the Black Swamp, planting apple trees to claim the land as their own. Life is harsh in the swamp, and as fever picks off their children, husband and wife take solace in separate comforts. James patiently grows his sweet-tasting 'eaters' while Sadie gets drunk on applejack made fresh from 'spitters'. Their fighting takes its toll on all of the Goodenoughs - a battle that will resonate over the years and across America. Fifteen years later their youngest son, Robert, is drifting through Goldrush California. Haunted by the broken family he fled years earlier, memories stick to him where mud once did. When he finds steady work for a plant collector, peace seems finally to be within reach. But the past is never really past.
Notes: Standard print edition originally published: London: The Borough Press.