Gone to Earth
In the wild hills of Shropshire, eighteen-year-old Hazel Woodus runs barefoot through the forests with her pet fox cub at her heels, a girl too alive for the small lives around her. Her mother was a Welsh gypsy who left her a legacy of spells and wanderlust; her father Abel is a mole-catcher who barely speaks to her. Hazel exists in a state of graceful defiance, taming what society demands she fear. When she falls between two men, the fox-hunting Jack Reddin and the gentle minister Edward Marston, she must choose between the wildness in her blood and the safety the world offers. What follows is a pastoral tragedy of devastating beauty, as Hazel discovers that some freedoms cannot survive love. Mary Webb writes with raw, sensuous prose about the natural world and those who belong to it rather than to civilization. This is a novel about the cost of choosing freedom, and the devastating beauty of remaining unbroken.
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“[...]we are all as full of echoes as a rocky wood--echoes of the past, reflex echoes of the future, and echoes of the soil (these last reverberating through our filmiest dreams, like the sound of thunder in a blossoming orchard).””
— Mary Gladys Meredith Webb
“She had so deep a kinship with the trees, so intuitive a sympathy with leaf and flower, that it seemed as if the blood in her veins was not slow-moving human blood, but volatile sap.””
— Mary Gladys Meredith Webb
“You wasn't made like watch-dogs and house-cats and cows. You was made a fox, and you be a fox, and its queer-like to me, Foxy, as folk canna see that. They expect you to be what you wanna made to be. You'm made to be a fox; and when you'm busy being a fox they say you'm a sinner!””
— Mary Gladys Meredith Webb
“Sleep was her fetish, panacea and art.””
— Mary Gladys Meredith Webb
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