Book description
1973.
Swallow's Farmhouse in deep, rural Norfolk is home to Your People, a commune of free-thinkers and poets seeking a better way. But beneath the veneer of a nurturing, alternative lifestyle, an atmosphere of jealousy and threat is pushing utopia towards the brink of its inevitable collapse.
Raising herself amidst…
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Born in 1956, I was formed in the 1970s. After the liberations of the '60s, the 70s saw clusters of people seeking new ways of living together beyond the nuclear family. One such endeavor is the commune at the heart of Devoured, in which Anna Mackmin encapsulates, dissects, and dismantles the secular dreams of a generation in a way I found breathtaking.
Bo, the teen narrator, pinpoints the absurdities of her self-deluded parents, useless poets, and unsavory predators wallowing in the commune's laxity.
Her voice, present tense of hiccupping inventiveness – interspersed with recipes by Bo and her mute…
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