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Thirteen stories set in and around a remote village on the Lancashire/Yorkshire border. Each describes an episode in the community’s history, progressing chronologically from ancient times to 2041. The tales are mostly dark, with hints of the unexplained or supernatural. A childless couple is given the opportunity to ‘grow’ a strange child from a greenhouse plant. A visitor to a psychiatric care home falls foul of an implied instruction not to eat the fruit they help to harvest from the orchard. An auctioneer sent to value paintings at a country house unearths a terrifying secret. The excitement of a villager…
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