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Blackthorn Winter

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4th March 2010

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In April, when blackthorn blossom clothes the hedgerows like a wedding veil, there sometimes comes a frost so severe that it seems as if the summer will never come. Country people call this a blackthorn winter.

For Claudia Barron, arriving in the Dorset village of Court Barton that April, blackthorn winter seems like a metaphor for everything that has happened to her. Hiding from her previous life, she adopts an assumed name and applies for a job in the local school. But villages don’t much like mysteries and secrets and soon the inhabitants of Court Barton set out to find out what it is that Claudia Barron is hiding from and why.

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Reviews

Rosamunde Pilcher
Praise for Sarah Challis's writing: 'I really enjoyed TURNING FOR HOME...I thought it so perceptive... I particularly enjoyed the very touching romance
Wiltshire Times
Excellently-written, with a gripping ending
Blackmore Vale magazine
Touching, funny and exciting
Dorset Life
Sarah Challis is becoming a novelist to be reckoned with
Oxford Times
Her evocation of the English countryside is elegiac...a pleasure to read