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THE REPORTER
Rachel Francis 

 

Protected by a forbidding security fence beyond the town, lies a farm. It was once farmed by Olive and Arthur Gladfield, but now Home Town Farm belongs to investors and lies at the centre of a mystery. Armed with a notebook and his dog, Abel is sent to report on the disappearance of Olive Gladfield. MORE ...

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The author, 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,​

 

The Reporter is available from regional  bookshops 

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Book Review:  THE REPORTER by Rachel Francis

“Rachel is, in my view, one of the best fiction  writers talking about contemporary rural existence, about the farming life, about the countryside.”

 

Ian Marchant, Author

 

Book Review: Telling it how it is on Dartmoor

"... best read slowly, with a glass of something warming after a bracing winter's day on the moor."

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Rob Campbell for The Western Morning News​​​

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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​

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