Addlands is the story of two generations of the Hamer family working the Funnon Farm. There is Idris, stubborn, strong, a man of the plough & the prayer-sheet, haunted by the war. Then comes Oliver, a near mythic giant bestriding the landscape, a fighter, a man of the hills as hard as the prehistoric stone. Then there is Etty, Oliver`s mother, the centre of this close constellation, watching new technologies & old ways converge on the farm & on the life of her son. Addlands is instantly a classic of rural British fiction. It is as vast & complex as a symphony but as pure & moving as a solo voice in an empty church. As much a book about birdsong as it is about closing time brawls, Addlands` beauty is in the clear truth of its language & the sheer humane depth of its inquiries. It is a miraculous book which unfurls at the speed of life & bathes its reader in a rare golden light.