How to BelongIn the follow up to her acclaimed novel 'Shelter', Sarah Franklin returns to the Forest of Dean, this time exploring what it means to belong to a rural community in a rapidly changing world. Jo grew up in the Forest of Dean, but she was always the one destined to leave for a bigger, brighter future. When her parents retire from their butcher's shop, she returns to her beloved community to save the family legacy, hoping also to save herself. But things

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where you had to be destitute to receive help

'A thrilling and complex book

The hills echo with the gunpowder blasts of hundreds of navvies tunnelling day and night to bring clean water to diseased Glasgow thirty miles away - digging so deep that there are those who worry they are disturbing the land of faery itself

Benjamin Dreyer is here to help

wife and mother

its great rivers

terrible and miraculous ways

Granny Codd understands

writer Cody Cassidy digs deep into the latest research to uncover the untold stories of some of these incredible innovators (or participants in lucky accidents)

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It's beautiful and elegiac and written with such a good heart' BAFTA award-winning screenwriter and producer Russell T