THE REPORTER
Rachel Francis
WHAT IF ... things are not as they seem?
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Times are changing; a farm on the edge of Dartmoor lies empty; and if anyone in the town knows what happened to Olive Gladfield, then they're not telling. Abel Richards must uncover the real story.
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Rachel Francis has worked on Dartmoor both as pony trek leader and on a farm. She is interested in rural and indigenous cultures, how they live, how their cultures overlap,
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The Reporter is available from regional bookshops.
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- R.Francis, author​
“Rachel is, in my view, one of the best fiction writers talking about contemporary rural existence, about the farming life, about the countryside.”
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“In Malka Older’s The Mimicking of Known Successes the central character talks about how the body yearns with a terrible epigenetic ache for 'an ecosystem I had never known but wanted, always wanted.' Reading The Reporter leaves me with an ache to be there, in that ecosystem.”
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Carla Billinghust, Author​