The Orchard

In a world of real and imagined dangers, and a climate of hostility between men and women, how does a woman grow into her own life? How does she place herself at the centre of her own story? What is the nature, and potential, of her power?

Here is the miraculous story that Ettie, in her eighties, tells Clara in her twenties - the legend of the silver hands...And around this centre are threaded considerations of domination, complicity, and certainties cast into doubt.
A beautifully written narrative, on the stories of four women at different ages and their self-analysis of themselves.