Broken Country
A trial, a shooting, and a first love returning to a Dorset village where a woman had settled for a quieter life.
In rural Dorset, Beth is settled into a farming marriage when the man she loved as a girl comes back to the village with his son. The novel opens with a trial and a shooting and then reverses to explain how a family got there. Hall writes the landscape and the grief of an earlier loss with real weight, and keeps the question of who is on trial, and for what, in play until late.
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Reese Witherspoon
is an unforgettable story of love, loss, and the choices that shape our lives
Book Club · March 2025
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