THE REPORTER
Rachel Francis
Protected by a forbidding security fence beyond the town, lies a farm. It was once farmed by Olive and Arthur Gladfield, but now Home Town Farm belongs to investors and lies at the centre of a mystery. Armed with a notebook and his dog, Abel is sent to report on the disappearance of Olive Gladfield. MORE ...
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Book Review: THE REPORTER by Rachel Francis
“Rachel is, in my view, one of the best fiction writers talking about contemporary rural existence, about the farming life, about the countryside.”
Book Review: Telling it how it is on Dartmoor
"... best read slowly, with a glass of something warming after a bracing winter's day on the moor."
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Rob Campbell for The Western Morning News​​​
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“In Malka Older’s The Mimicking of Known Successes the central character talks about how the body yearns with a terrible epigenetic ache for 'an ecosystem I had never known but wanted, always wanted.' Reading The Reporter leaves me with an ache to be there, in that ecosystem.”
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Carla Billinghust, Author​
Thank you to everyone who has bought ... read ... and/or given feedback on THE REPORTER. It was such a great response to a self published book!!!
If you were interested in the main theme of The Reporter, do read this piece on self determination in the islands of Haida Gwaii.
The idea of Self Determination is about returning power to the people who live in a place. It has been a key idea for the Haida people, placing authority in local hands and giving them the chance to maintain their own place in the world, applying carefully structured systems and old wisdoms and checks and balances and working always for the children and the future.