A novel about adolescence and first love, about English nature and the profound changes affecting rural landscape, The Harvest is a contemporary and unsentimental elegy for an entire class and way of life that is disappearing as surely as the English elm.'This certainly is a debut with a difference - a novel so fresh and authentic that it deserves to take its place alongside V. S. Naipaul's Enigma of Arrival and Tim Pears' In the Place of Fallen Leaves in the canon of contemporary fiction that elegises so movingly the English countryside.' The Times