QUIET EARTH

Sunley, Margaret

RANDOM HOUSE UK

In the beautiful Yorkshire Dales during the nineteenth century, Jonadab Oaks and his family live at Aumery Park Farm, upholding the tradition of hard work and responsibility like generations of Oaks before them. For all his strength as a farmer and caretaker of Oaks' traditions, Jonadab is unable to arrange the future according to what has gone before, and as the children grow and marry, here is a family story complete with tragedy, scandal and new directions.

The Quiet Earth

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Rowan

Margaret Sunley is the author of THE QUIET EARTH which was published to notices including: 'A most accomplished first novel' - Angus County Press and 'a remarkable first novel...set against the rhythm of the four seasons' - Fife Press. Patriarch Jonadab Oaks is slow to let the children of his large family enter the world outside the isolated valley of Sleightholmedale, where he and his ancestors have farmed for generations. With his wife Annie providing the joys of hearth and home, Jonadab nurtures the ancient values of the land and Nature's year. The description of the local Yorkshire landscape, with its market towns, outlaying farms and manorial wealth, portrays an epic picture of nineteenth century rural Yorkshire.

Fields In The Sun (U) (Ulverscroft General Ser)

Ulverscroft

A family saga set in the 19th century amidst the beauty of the Yorkshire Dales, this book is a sequel to the author's "The Quiet Earth". The book tells the story of Jonadab Oaks, who, as patriarch of his large family, is slow to let his children grow and enter the larger world outside.

Fields in the Sun

British & Irish

Century

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