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Hope farm, Peggy Frew

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Hope farm

Peggy Frew

They were inescapable, the tensions of the adult world - the fraught and febrile aura that surrounded Ishtar and those in her orbig, that whined and creaked like a wire pulled too tight. It is the winter 1985. Hope Farm sticks out of the ragged landscape like a decaying tooth, its weather board walls sagging into the undergrowth. Silver's mother, Ishtar, has fallen charismatic Miller, and the three of them have moved to the rural hippie commune to make a new start. At Hope, Silver finds unexpected friendship and, at last, a place to call home. But it is also here that, at just thirteen, she is thrust into an unrelenting adult world-and the walls begin to come down come tumbling down, with deadly consequences