At Hawthorn Time Susan Hill become an adopted son

become an adopted son

very quickly

hes nearly forty and burned out and about to be retired

he has clawed his way to fabulous wealth by speculating on gold and oil

Yeeran is a warrior in the elven army and has known nothing but violence her whole life

At Hawthorn Time Susan Hill become an adopted sonFour thirty on a May morning: the black fading to blue, dawn gathering somewhere below the treeline in the east. A long, straight road runs between sleeping fields to the little village of Lodeshill, and on it two cars lie wrecked and ravished, violence gathered about them in the silent air. One wheel, upturned, still spins. Howard and Kitty have recently moved to Lodeshill after a life spent in London; now, their marriage is wordlessly falling apart.