Amy and Lan

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'This is the story of how we came to Frith. And we're never, ever, ever leaving.'

Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood, growing up on a West Country farm - three families, a couple of lodgers, goats, dogs and an orphaned calf called Gabriella Christmas.
The parents are best friends too. Originally from the city, they're learning about farming: growing their own vegetables, milking the goats, slaughtering chickens and scything the hay -

'Mind your eyes! Don't break your neck! Careful!'

The adults are far too busy to keep an eye on Amy and Lan, and Amy and Lan would never tell them about climbing on the high barn roof, or what happened with the axe that time, any more than their parents would tell them the things they get up to - adult things, like betrayal - that threaten to bring the whole fragile idyll tumbling down.

© Sadie Jones 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Critics Review

  • I adore Sadie Jones’ writing… [Amy and Lan is] funny, moving, and really goes to the heart of why trying to change for the better isn’t as simple as it sounds

    Elizabeth Day, *Day's Delights*

  • Jones’s fictional landscape is jam-packed, abundant, and her smallholding as thick with intrigue as the Borgias’ court… I don’t think I’ve read another recent novel that better captures the pure sugar-rush of childhood; the sense of a life so exhilarating and ecstatic that it is almost too much to bear

    Guardian

  • I couldn’t put it down. Amy and Lan is a love letter to nature, to the seasons, to the ideal of simple living with all its human complications. It’s a beautifully evoked story, full of empathy and hope

    Esther Freud, author of I COULDN'T LOVE YOU MORE

  • Achingly poignant… This is a novel of quiet beauty, vividly evoking the magnitude of childhood loss and the capacity for hope

    Observer

  • A bright, bittersweet novel

    Evening Standard, *Summer Reads of 2022*

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