Set in the small English village of Stonebridge, the Orchard on Fire tells the story of eight-year-old April Harlency's coming-of-age in a place where the charm of the local landscape contrasts sharply with the predjuices and vagaries of the adult world. When April encounters the red-haired, energetic Ruby Richards, the two girls become fast friends. Together, they abandon the physical and mental abuse forced on them by adults in their lives and transform an abandoned railway car in an orchard into their secret hideaway, an idyllic camp of shared dreams.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 11/15/1997
ISBN: 9780156005326
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d
Award: Man Booker Prize - Nominee

Review Citations: New York Times 11/16/1997 pg. 76
Publishers Weekly 09/29/1997