Dimensions
152 x 233 x 25mm
Kate and Josh Hutchins have been married for thirty years. For all that time they have lived on Dancing Hill Farm in Dorset. Here they brought up three children, expected to grow old, and imagined they would pass the farm on to one of their boys, like generations of family before them.
But things have not gone to plan. Neither of their sons is interested in the farm, their daughter is working in London, in love with a man who has no real liking for the countryside, and Dancing Hill itself is no longer the profitable place that it once was.
More dangerously still, Kate is restless, longing for some time to herself dreaming of what she might have achieved if she had not married so young. When her children give her a week's painting holiday in Provence she seizes it like a lifeline, hardly realising as she does so that by the time she comes back, everything will have changed - both for herself and for those she has left behind on Dancing Hill.
'On Dancing Hill' is Sarah Challis's fourth novel. She has a unique ability to capture the beauty, the rhythms - and the brutality - of real country life, alongside the most intimate understanding of the way people think and feel, whether caught in the fire of passion, chugging along in the comfort and irritations of a long marriage - or facing old age and death.
