Orchard on Fire

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.<br>