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If you were to pass Hill Farm you would think it the perfect country idyll with lambs in the fields, children playing and the farmhouse nestled in the folds of the hills. The truth though is different. Farmer Hayes loves the land, but he's no farmer. His wife is neglected and it's not that long since Isabel miscarried her fourth child. She loves her children but she's not a particularly good housewife - or wife. She and Hayes were rather bounced into marriage by her aging ageing and doting parents. Now she's trapped in a house with death-watch beetle and a husband who is struggling to keep the farm going.
Mikey, the farm hand, reached the peak of his achievement long ago with his main talent now being his ability to take regular unauthorised breaks. Oh, yes - and he dabbles in a little pyromania. The Paynes live in a cottage on the farm, wedded to the idea that they live in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and impervious to the realities of the farming community. The Smith sisters have not spoken to each other for forty years and the postmistress runs an information system that would shame the KGB.
