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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Hope Farm
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'From the award-winning author of House of Sticks comes a magnificent story of love, tragedy, and forgiveness lost.

'It is the winter of 1985, and 13-year-old Silver Landes is about to be pushed towards a decision that could split her world apart. Her mother, Ishtar, has fallen for the charismatic but unnerving Miller, and the three of them have moved from Brisbane to Hope Farm, a run-down hippie commune in rural Gippsland.

'Among the bedraggled residents of Hope, young Silver finds unexpected friendship and love. Has she found a home at last? Or will Ishtar's secrets force Silver into becoming an adult before she is ready, with devastating consequences?

'Hope Farm is a beautifully wrought, tender tale of what happens when love brings about unforeseen and unimaginable acts of sacrifice, and the enduring damage that can result from holding back the truth.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Epigraph:

    'You don't look back along time but down
    through it, like water. Sometimes this comes
    to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes
    nothing. Nothing goes away.'

    -Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Scribe , 2015 .
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      Extent: 352p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 23/09/2015
      ISBN: 9781925106572
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Scribe ,
      2016 .
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      Extent: 343p.p.
      Edition info: 1st UK ed.
      Note/s:
      • Published 9 June 2016.
      ISBN: 9781925228533
    • Minneapolis, Minnesota,
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Scribe ,
      2019 .
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      Extent: 352p.p.
      Edition info: 1st US ed.
      ISBN: 9781947534728

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording, large print
  • Dyslexic edition.

Works about this Work

The Stella Interview : Peggy Frew 2018 single work interview
— Appears in: The Stella Interviews 2018;

'Peggy Frew’s novel Hope Farm is shortlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize. We asked Peggy a few questions about endings, inspiration and the writing process.' (Introduction)

Pleasures in Listening Amanda Ellis , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 21 June 2016; (p. 6)
'Talking books lover Amanda Ellis explores a journey from cassettes to Kindle read-alouds.'
Miles Franklin Shortlist: Four Melbourne Novelists Join Charlotte Wood Jason Steger , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 29 May 2016;
'Four authors who have never previously featured in the latter stages of the Miles Franklin Literary Award have made their way onto the shortlist for Australia's premier literary prize. ...'
Miles Franklin Shortlist Named 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Mercury , 30 May 2016; (p. 5)
'The shortlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award was announced in Sydney yesterday. ...'
After Stella Success, Frew Makes Miles Final Rosemary Neill , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 30 May 2016; (p. 3)
Hope Farm by Peggy Frew Review – a Painful Tale of Mother and Daughter Meredith Jaffé , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 14 October 2015;

— Review of Hope Farm Peggy Frew , 2015 single work novel
Interloper Divides Mother and Child Thuy On , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 25 October 2015; (p. 17)

— Review of Hope Farm Peggy Frew , 2015 single work novel
Australian Fiction Ed Wright , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 7-8 November 2015; (p. 23)

— Review of Hope Farm Peggy Frew , 2015 single work novel ; Locust Girl : A Lovesong Merlinda Bobis , 2015 single work novel ; Formaldehyde Jane Rawson , 2015 single work novella ; Going Out Backwards Ross Fitzgerald , Ian McFadyen , 2015 selected work short story
Well Read Margot Lloyd , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 31 October 2015; (p. 27)

— Review of Hope Farm Peggy Frew , 2015 single work novel
Review : Hope Farm Judith Grace , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , November 2015; (p. 48)

— Review of Hope Farm Peggy Frew , 2015 single work novel
Miles Franklin Award Longlist 2016 : Five Out of Nine Nominees Are Women Steph Harmon , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 5 April 2016;
Includes The 2016 Miles Franklin longlist
After Stella Success, Frew Makes Miles Final Rosemary Neill , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 30 May 2016; (p. 3)
Miles Franklin Shortlist Named 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Mercury , 30 May 2016; (p. 5)
'The shortlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award was announced in Sydney yesterday. ...'
Miles Franklin Shortlist: Four Melbourne Novelists Join Charlotte Wood Jason Steger , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 29 May 2016;
'Four authors who have never previously featured in the latter stages of the Miles Franklin Literary Award have made their way onto the shortlist for Australia's premier literary prize. ...'
Pleasures in Listening Amanda Ellis , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 21 June 2016; (p. 6)
'Talking books lover Amanda Ellis explores a journey from cassettes to Kindle read-alouds.'
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