Fourwells Green Author:Catherine Taylor Fourwells Green is a reflective, often heart-rending, and frequently humorous and dry outlook on a farming society set around the lives of the Gilbert family. Events centre on Billy Gilbert and his lifelong soul mate, Vanessa, as he travels through adolescence and adulthood overcoming dreadful adversity, the pressures of a rigid family life, and... more » always the looming presence of the farm and everything within it. Written in an easy, charming narrative, full of colourful rustic characters and painfully compelling situations and responses, we see that Billy and Vanessa are as real as the rest of us. Their unconditional love for each other carries through the years, as everything that could possibly be thrown at them, is. Billy must endure prison and its icy hand on his heart, Vanessa the attention of admirers and the stresses of bringing up her children in a changing world. With Billy's fearsome parents an ever-present influence, the reader careers through tempest after tempest, feeling Billy and Vanessa's frustrations, but all the while smiling with the knowledge that they are incredibly human? a true representation of the good and bad of rural life.« less