THE REPORTER
Rachel Francis
WHAT IF ... ?​​​​
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.
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Rachel Francis has worked on Dartmoor both as pony trek leader and on a farm. She is interested in rural and indigenous cultures, how they live, how their cultures overlap,
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The Reporter is available from regional bookshops including: Ivybridge Bookshop, Tavistock Bookshop, Totnes Eastgate Bookshop, Seven Fables in Dulverton, Walter Henry's in Bideford and The Curious Otter in Ottery St Mary.
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More details or order a copy online here.
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- R.Francis, author​
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​