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2000s: In a West Country farm house, love blossoms….
The Things I Know
What you need to know before your trail
Thomasina ‘Hitch’ Waycott loves living and working on the remote family farm and B&B. But she also wants more. To see the world. To own her own home. To fall madly in love.
But those are fairy tales, and if her life is a fairy tale, then she’s the ugly duckling. Her deformed lip, her crooked limbs and her weak heart have kept her from taking chances. But that’s about to change.
When Grayson Potts comes to stay, he’s unlike anyone Thomasina has ever met. He’s aloof, eccentric and exceptionally kind. He’s also totally unconcerned with the physical flaws that have always defined Thomasina.
The two form a bond that neither has had before. It’s possible that it could become something more, but Thomasina also wonders if it’s too good to be true. By putting her heart on the line, Thomasina may open herself to heartbreak. But she may also open herself to so much more.
Travel Guide
Travel to Amanda Prowse’s setting of Waycott Farm, West Country
The West Country consists of a few places – mainly Cornwall and Devon, Dorset and Somerset. The farm Waycott Farm where the novel is set is of course fictional so it could be in any one of these places. What matters is that the farm house is old fashioned, quaint quirky and rustic:
“She stood at the sound of the wooden treads creaking overhead on one of the two staircases in Waycott Farm, the West Country farmhouse in which she had been born. This smaller staircase led straight off the kitchen to the rooms on flight up. On this side of the house each of the bedrooms was strung with study beams that a taller person needed to duck to avoid. Small windows peeped out from the ancient, moss-ridden, sloping red pantile roof and the whole place seemed to list to the left as if it might tumble.”
“Lined with dark wood, the landing and hallways had a feel and smell all their own.”
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Things I Know
Destination: Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset Author/guide: Amanda Prowse Departure Time: 2000s
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