Come to the edge

Description:

A young woman tells the story of her decision to take a break from suburban life by moving to a shambolic, draughty farmhouse in a scenic country valley. Along with the farmhouse comes a new companion, a widowed survivalist called Cassandra White. Her crazy, utopian dream is to stop rich city-dwellers buying up rural second homes. Others who become involved include a banker - and scores of poor and elderly people with nowhere to go ...

subjects: Widows,  Fiction,  Farm life,  Satirischer Roman,  Englisch