John Clanchy

Miriam'Look what I've found,' Philip says. When all I'd sent him to the laundry for was frozen peas.'See?' he says again when I don't turn.'Philip,' I say, 'I'm trying to get this roast in the oven. If it doesn't go in this minute, it'll be nine o'clock before we eat.'Though this isn't the reason I...

Lie of the Land She had come to him shortly after he had taken up the farm. Fifteen years, but the day was full of hope and he remembered it like yesterday. She had tvunbled down from the truck, long-legged and spindly like a young girl, and stood in the paddock before him, her eyes bright and...