
Addlands is the moving & engrossing story of the Hamer family & their home the Funnon Farm deep in the hills of the Welsh borders There is Idris proud & insular a man of the plough & the prayer sheet haunted by the First World War Then there is the boy Oliver who grows to be a near mythic giant in the community a fighter a drinker inescapably rooted in their hard remote valley & there is Etty Oliver's mother the centre of this close constellation who navigates old ways & new technologies as she struggles to ensure her family's survival From the ancient silence in the hills to the encroaching roar of modernity spanning seventy years Addlands tells of human & animal; it speaks of the land & lets the land speak for itself It is as vast & complex as a symphony but as pure & moving as a solo voice in an empty church