The Levels

Fiction & Literature, Literary
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Author: Benson, Peter ISBN: 9781846882234
Publisher: Alma Books Publication: April 3, 2012
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Benson, Peter
ISBN: 9781846882234
Publisher: Alma Books
Publication: April 3, 2012
Imprint:
Language: English
Drove House has always loomed large over village life. Boarded-up for years, it is reputed to be brimming with ghosts, and is shunned by the locals all except Billy, for whom it has been the site of childhood dens and secret adolescent adventures. When the captivating Muriel moves in with her bohemian mother, they sweep out the ghosts and breathe new life into both the house and Billys quiet rural existence. After an idyllic summer, though, Muriel returns to her life in London, and the newly empty Drove House becomes the backdrop for Billys struggle to reconcile the vanishing agricultural lifestyle he has inherited with the glimpses of a baffling new way of life Muriel seemed to offer. Charting the conflict between these two competing worlds, Peter Bensons award-winning first novel is at once a lyrical portrait of the landscape of the Somerset Levels and a touching evocation of first love.
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Drove House has always loomed large over village life. Boarded-up for years, it is reputed to be brimming with ghosts, and is shunned by the locals all except Billy, for whom it has been the site of childhood dens and secret adolescent adventures. When the captivating Muriel moves in with her bohemian mother, they sweep out the ghosts and breathe new life into both the house and Billys quiet rural existence. After an idyllic summer, though, Muriel returns to her life in London, and the newly empty Drove House becomes the backdrop for Billys struggle to reconcile the vanishing agricultural lifestyle he has inherited with the glimpses of a baffling new way of life Muriel seemed to offer. Charting the conflict between these two competing worlds, Peter Bensons award-winning first novel is at once a lyrical portrait of the landscape of the Somerset Levels and a touching evocation of first love.

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