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The Orchard on Fire
The Orchard on Fire is a novel, the best known work of British author Shena Mackay.[2] It has been identified as one of the best novels of the s.[3]
Synopsis
It is Percy and Betty Harlency leave the pub they have been running in London and take over a tea-shop in Stonebridge, a village in Kent.
They have a daughter, April, aged eight, and a son, Peter, is born in Stonebridge.
April makes two special friends.
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Her best friend is Ruby, a girl of her age, whose parents, Lex and Gloria Richards, run the village pub. They run a good pub but they are rough people and Lex is violent to his daughter. He blacks her eye; he cuts off one of her pigtails with a breadknife.
Ruby is a high-spirited red-haired girl. She likes playing with fire, setting fire to napkins, for example.
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April's other friend is Mr Greenidge, a charming, old-fashioned gentleman with blue eyes and a white beard. April's parents are pleased that he likes her. He lives i