Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, 2025
A farm, a marriage, and a first love who comes back: a story about the choices made young and the decades spent living with them.
Clare Leslie Hall
The novel is set in Dorset, in England's West Country, where the farming calendar — lambing, hay, harvest — still governs the year.
Feels like longing, love and grief.
What it takes to keep two griefs from tipping each other over.
Frank and I dance around each other’s sadness. Any couple who has lost a child will tell you the same. You see it in the other, of course you do, but it’s like you’re on a seesaw of grief, and all you want is to avoid tipping the other one down. Books by Clare Leslie Hall
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