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The orchard on fire

Set in the small English village of Stonebridge in the Fifties, this is the story of eight-year-old April Harlency's coming of age in a place where the charm of the local landscape contrasts sharply with the prejudices, vicious gossip, and vagaries of what we would now call child abuse. As the Harlency family moves from their rented rooms to run the Copper Kettle Tearoom (poorly), their ex-landlord hangs a notice on the window: "No Blacks. No Irish. No Pets." April befriends the red-headed, energetic Ruby who lives above her parents' butcher shop where, as April says, "I learned the fate of Pansy Pig and all her pink litter and burst into tears." The two girls form an immediate and fast friendship. April also befriends the lonely Mr. Greenridge who presses his unwanted sexual advances on her. To escape the pressures of daily life, April and Ruby find a hideaway in the middle of an orchard where, together, they build the "camp of our dreams."

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  • "Set in the small English village of Stonebridge in the Fifties, this is the story of eight-year-old April Harlency's coming of age in a place where the charm of the local landscape contrasts sharply with the prejudices, vicious gossip, and vagaries of what we would now call child abuse. As the Harlency family moves from their rented rooms to run the Copper Kettle Tearoom (poorly), their ex-landlord hangs a notice on the window: "No Blacks. No Irish. No Pets." April befriends the red-headed, energetic Ruby who lives above her parents' butcher shop where, as April says, "I learned the fate of Pansy Pig and all her pink litter and burst into tears." The two girls form an immediate and fast friendship. April also befriends the lonely Mr. Greenridge who presses his unwanted sexual advances on her. To escape the pressures of daily life, April and Ruby find a hideaway in the middle of an orchard where, together, they build the "camp of our dreams.""
  • "Set in the small English village of Stonebridge in the Fifties, this is the story of eight-year-old April Harlency's coming of age in a place where the charm of the local landscape contrasts sharply with the prejudices, vicious gossip, and vagaries of what we would now call child abuse. As the Harlency family moves from their rented rooms to run the Copper Kettle Tearoom (poorly), their ex-landlord hangs a notice on the window: "No Blacks. No Irish. No Pets." April befriends the red-headed, energetic Ruby who lives above her parents' butcher shop where, as April says, "I learned the fate of Pansy Pig and all her pink litter and burst into tears." The two girls form an immediate and fast friendship. April also befriends the lonely Mr. Greenridge who presses his unwanted sexual advances on her. To escape the pressures of daily life, April and Ruby find a hideaway in the middle of an orchard where, together, they build the "camp of our dreams.""@en
  • "The friendship of two abused village girls in England. One is April, whose parents run a tea room, the other is Ruby, daughter of publicans. Ruby is abused by her father, April by a friend of her parents who chide her for avoiding him."
  • "The friendship of two abused village girls in England. One is April, whose parents run a tea room, the other is Ruby, daughter of publicans. Ruby is abused by her father, April by a friend of her parents who chide her for avoiding him."@en
  • "Set in the small English village of Stonebridge, the Orchard on Fire tells the story of eight-year-old April Harlency's coming-of-age in a place where the charm of the local landscape contrasts sharply with the predjuices and vagaries of the adult world. When April encounters the red-haired, energetic Ruby Richards, the two girls become fast friends. Together, they abandon the physical and mental abuse forced on them by adults in their lives and transform an abandoned railway car in an orchard into their secret hideaway, an idyllic camp of shared dreams."@en

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  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Large print books"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Translations"
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"

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  • "Der brennende Obstgarten Roman"
  • "The orchard on fire"
  • "The orchard on fire"@en
  • "Der brennende Obstgarten : Roman"
  • "The Orchard on fire"
  • "The Orchard on fire"@en
  • "The orchard on fire : a novel"@en
  • "The orchard on fire : a novel"
  • "Phōtia sto perivoli : mythistorēma"
  • "The orchard on fire a novel"@en

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