Miss Boston And Miss Hargreaves
  • Published: 29 January 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241976098
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $26.00
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Miss Boston And Miss Hargreaves

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29 Jan 2018
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A novel with a crime at its heart, based on the extraordinary life of the author's own grandmother

One day in 1940 Rene Hargreaves walks out on her family and the city to take a position as a Land Girl at the remote Starlight farm. There she will live with and help lonely farmer Elsie Boston. At first Elsie and Rene are unsure of one another - strangers from different worlds. But over time they each come to depend on the other. They become inseparable. Until the day a visitor from Rene's past arrives and their careful, secluded life is thrown into confusion. Suddenly, all they have built together is threatened. What will they do to protect themselves? And are they prepared for the consequences?
  • Published: 29 January 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241976098
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $26.00
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Praise for Miss Boston And Miss Hargreaves

Quietly gripping and intriguing

Elizabeth Buchan

A surprisingly touching account of hidden lives forced out of the shadows

Sunday Times

Part period piece, part courtroom drama, this is also a touching love story

Daily Mail

So lovely, gentle yet enthralling

Claire Fuller

Skilful, persuasive, thoroughly enjoyable, unexpected

Penelope Lively

A breathtaking debut

Prima

A vivid exploration of family secrets uncovered and the effects of trauma, as well as a war story about women doing whatever they had to do to survive

Irish Times

Astonishingly, this is Rachel Malik's debut, and her handling of the richness and simplicity of this story of farming life suggests that she is on the brink of a distinguished literary career

Judges of the Walter Scott Prize 2018