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.