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.
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Me and Amy are both seven now. 1: HALLOWEEN
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(@ChattoBooks, 7 July 2022, ebook, 308 pages, #ARC from the publisher via # NetGalley)
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This is a new author for me. I really enjoyed Amy and Lan. I loved the depiction of friendship between Amy and Lan. It comes across as genuine. I also liked the way the book tackles the reality of life on a farm and how hard it can be. There's no sugar-coating which I found refreshing.
