Description
The Coles have lived in Middlemere, an isolated tenant farm, for half a century.When, in 1942, the family are threatened with eviction, Martha Cole and her small son, Jem, flee the house, while Martha's husband, Sam, and their eight-year-old daughter, Romy, barricade themselves inside Middlemere.
When Sam brandishes a shotgun, the police are called in, and Romy sees her father shot dead.
Years later, Martha Cole has remarried and she and her family are living in much-reduced circumstances. Romy, now almost nineteen, is quick, clever and single minded.
She has never forgotten or forgiven the violence and injustice of the Coles' eviction, and schemes to restore the family fortunes.
ISBN:9780330480017
