Harvest (Paperback)
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Paperback 240 Pages
Published: 14/04/2022
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‘I would compare her to writers like Helen Dunmore, Elizabeth Strout, Jon McGregor’ BBC Radio 4

‘Harding achieves a weighty sense of silence and things not said in this unsettling book about the aftershocks of trauma and the burdens of bearing witness’ Sunday Times

'A masterly achievement, illuminating with wisdom and compassion the darkest corners of the human heart' Guardian

A farm in Norfolk in the 1970s. A Japanese girl comes to visit her English lover in the house where he was born. She arrives on a day of perfect summer, stands with his mother in a garden filled with roses, watches as his brother walks fields of ripening wheat.

But between the two brothers lies the shadow of their father’s violent death almost twenty years before, the unresolved narrative of their childhood – a story that has gone untold, a story that began in the last war. In the presence of the girl, the old trauma begins to surface as the work of the harvest begins.

‘Taut and unsettling ... A fine meditation on war’s long reach’ Mail on Sunday

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN: 9781526625106
Number of pages: 240
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

Luminescent … Organic and vital … Remarkable … Harvest is a work of delicate, devastating beauty, proof that Harding is a writer of rare insight who deserves to be read more widely - Financial Times

Harding moves fluently between each character … The payoff is devastating - Daily Mail

Harding’s cycle of books stand as a masterly achievement, illuminating with wisdom and compassion the darkest corners of the human heart - Guardian

Harding achieves a weighty sense of silence and things not said in this unsettling book about the aftershocks of trauma and the burdens of bearing witness - The Times

So deeply engaging, so threatening, so mild, so controlled — at every stage it seems as if desperate damage is about to be done, and then bit by excruciating bit you realise it was done long, long ago, and nobody you’re looking at now can do anything about it. What a writer! - Louisa Young, author of My Dear I Wanted to Tell You

Harvest is an old-fashioned novel in the best possible sense ... The rewards are many. The heartbeat of the book continues to echo long after the last page has been turned’ - Times Literary Supplement

Taut and unsettling, this fine meditation on war’s long reach follows on from Land Of The Living but more than satisfies as a stand-alone - Mail on Sunday

An absolutely exceptional novel … She has a deeply humane and developed sense of what it means to be a woman, and also what it means to belong - Clover Stroud

Staggering … An unparalleled masterpiece - Lunate.co.uk

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“An absolute gem.”

“Harvest” tells the story of a family; brothers Jonathan and Richard and their mother Claire during the summer months and harvest time in Norfolk. When Jonathan’s girlfriend Kumiko comes to visit them from japan, it... More

Hardback edition
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“A graceful immersion in family dynamics.”

Harvest follows a family of three, Jonathan, Richard and their mother, Claire over the course of a harvest in the Norfolk countryside when Jonny's girlfriend Kumiko comes to visit them from Japan.

This book is a... More

Hardback edition
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“Not interesting enough”

An intriguing exploration of cross-border relationships, but maddeningly slow pacing--I couldn't get into this.

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