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During the long hot summer of 1976, a brilliant young Cambridge mathematician arrives in a remote village in the Lake District and takes on a job as a farm labourer. Painfully awkward and shy, Spencer Little is viewed with suspicion by the community and his only real friendship is with scruffy, clever 10-year-old Alice. When he saves Alice from a wild-fire, the locals at last begin to accept him, but as he is drawn deeper into their lives, he also becomes aware of their secrets - and of the difficulty of keeping his own.

©2011 Catherine Hall (P)2011 Oakhill Publishing Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction Fiction
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What a hard life then characters in this story live. I thought it was set in a much older time frame than the seventies it was set in.
There is not really any happy bits to this book but it is a good story

Sad and atmospheric

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