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Overview

After an elderly farmer dies, following an accident on a remote Welsh smallholding, he leaves the kingdom over which he had ruled so fiercely to his two daughters, Lucy and Cadi. As they prepare for the funeral, the novel--the last written by the prolific James Hanley--relates the events and experiences that made each sister what she is now: Lucy, the runaway, who fled the farm secretly and without warning, never to see the old man again, and Cadi, who promptly sacrificed her job as a teacher in Manchester to take Lucy's place in her father's lonely world, thus initiating a pattern of guilt, self-submission, self-reliance, and occluded rage that would last until his death. A haunting, elegiac evocation of hill-farm life, A Kingdom focuses on the connotations of the word "rooted" from its first line, exploring what it means, for good and ill, to be tied to such a place.

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Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781908946539
  • ISBN-10: 1908946539
  • Publisher: Parthian
  • Publish Date: March 2014
  • Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
  • Page Count: 220

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