Foxash: 'A wonderfully atmospheric and deeply unsettling novel' Sarah Waters

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Lettie is a miner’s wife. As a woman, she doesn’t ask for much out of life. It’s the Great Depression, her husband has lost his job and they are penniless. Lettie is cautiously optimistic when she and her husband are granted relocation from a “Special Area” to a government-sponsored farming community. She’s grateful when the couple on the adjacent farm go out of their way to help them get established during their first farming season. Foxash was one of the many small-holdings set up in the 1930s by the Government’s Land Settlement Association. This venue is a Community Centre on one level. We use a large room, which is wheelchair accessible and has easy access to toilet facilities. We also have use of a kitchen. Our Ukulele Club meets here each Thursday morning.D'Arcy Rd

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We have 2 darts teams (tue) 2 dart teams (fri) 2 pool teams (mon), and a bar & hall and field for hire..We provide lunch, plus a range of activities to support our social, emotional and mental well-being, including outdoor sports and games when the weather allows. To give you some idea about suitability, the following events have been or are planned to be held at Foxash Social Club: Would you like to learn to play the ukulele? Then come and join us on Thursday mornings. We have ukuleles for you to use, and you can even take one home with you to practice. To book a place call Victoria on 07710 177050.

Foxash | Kate Worsley | 9781472294906 | NetGalley Foxash | Kate Worsley | 9781472294906 | NetGalley

Two neighbouring smallholders, Jean and Adam Dell, who have successfully managed their smallholding for years take Lettie and Tommy under their wing and give them tips and help with the planting and harvesting. The smallholders work all hours on the land. The seasons come and go, crops are planted and harvested. Friendships develop and grow. It feels like a pastoral idyll. A well researched book about an era that I don't know particularly well, but sadly it wasn't for me. Foxash LSA continued for another 15 years, until the closure of all remaining LSAs was announced in the House of Commons on 22nd December 1982. LSAs were encouraged to continue as independent companies and tenants had the right to buy their houses and smallholdings. I’m 1934 the Land Settlement Association started buying up farms and brought long term unemployed industrial workers from the north to man them. This is the story of Tommy, a miner, and Lettie his wife at Foxash. Life is hard, very hard but for Lettie it seems barely tolerable.stars. This is a strange one and I’m not fully sure how I feel about it. I found the historical elements of this book to be really interesting and I liked learning about the LSA scheme. There were some great ideas and elements to this story that I really enjoyed such as Lettie’s past and the unsettling, claustrophobic atmosphere between the two holdings. However I just felt that none of the ideas ended up being executed in a satisfying way for me and I just felt really disconnected from the writing and characters throughout. I ended the book with a feeling that there was just something missing and I didn’t like how it was all wrapped up. Kate Worsley sets up all the themes solidly - growth, the land, the seasons, the cycles (both of woman and the earth) - but she definitely lets the reader make all the connections for themselves. Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License What is the latitude and longitude of Foxash Estate?