Flatlands
by Sue Hubbard
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Pub Date 1 Jun 2023 | Archive Date 23 Jun 2023
Pushkin Press | ONE
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Description
Flatlands is a homage to Paul Gallico's classic short story The Snow Goose.
Freda is a twelve-year-old evacuee from East London, who has been sent away at the start of the war, leaving behind everything familiar to her, to escape the expected German bombing.
In her new temporary home in Lincolnshire, Freda finds herself billeted with a strange, cold and, ultimately, abusive couple, whose lives mirror the barren landscape in which they live a hand to mouth existence, based upon subsistence farming and poaching. There, deprived of any warmth, she meets a young man - Philip Rhayader -a conscientious objector who has left Oxford and his prospective vocation in the church following a nervous breakdown. Slowly, he introduces her to the wonders of the natural world and its enduring power to heal.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781911590743 |
| PRICE | £16.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 272 |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
Jill W, Reviewer
This book left me feeling akin to the title of flat. It’s a novel of reminiscence that drifts back and forth between time zones and the two main protagonists, Freda and Philip . A slow moving but thoughtful and empathetic book set in marsh lands of Lincolnshire, starting with the evacuation of children from London at the outbreak of war, of which Freda is one.
The book gave some good descriptive details of the landscape and the lives of the local people at the outbreak of WW2. It’s only when half way through the book that the two main characters are finally brought together when caring for an injured albino goose. Freda, in her golden years, recalls her childhood as an evacuee and her friendship with Philip. The telling of Philip’s role in the Normandy landings and evacuation of the troops from Dunkirk is very readable and harrowing. A short, well written and sympathetically handled novel. My review of this novel increased as I read further, reaching the point when I just had to know how it ended.
My thanks to NetGalley and the publishers Pushkin Press for this advance copy
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