“This shortlisted (Guardian first novel) story of a family farm in Yorkshire and how circumstances force the family to break up.
Second son, Richard, leaves the farm and his older brother, and ageing father to manage when he heads for a career and life change in London.
The brothers don’t deal well with this, but for me the story wasn’t that interesting, I became bored and couldn’t care so gave up on page 112.
Score 4/10
Date read January 2006
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