A review by janinevduijn
All Among The Barley by Melissa Harrison

3.0

I quite enjoyed this novel set on a farm in England in the 1930s. It's very slow, but yet managed to capture me as a reader. There's not much of a plot to speak of, but we follow young Edie's life on the farm, and through her perspective learn about farming in those days, but also the hardships that are involved. Throughout the novel there is a sense of foreboding, as a woman with some disturbing political ideas shakes up the life at the farm. This does eventually culminate towards a rather more exciting ending of the book.

Although I enjoyed this book overall, I have to mention one of my pet-peeves : it contains references from a narrator as to what will happen in the future (f'this was to be the last summer I spent ....'). This annoys me to no end.