Harvest Festival

I always love being surprised by a story. Karl Drinkwater's "Harvest Festival" is quite deceiving, setting up what feels like a small secluded tale which quickly outgrows its boundaries, expanding into something I couldn't have predicted. The frenetic style of storytelling Drinkwater employs really......more

4.5 stars. This is the first book I have read by this author and it certainly will not be the last. Harvest Festival is a novella that took me literally about an hour to read as I was that engrossed in the story. Callum with his wife Cerys and two children are very much your stereo typical family.They......more

[URL not allowed] Callum's thoughts while out checking the farm before dinner leads us to believe that all is not right within the relationships in his family. An angry and moaning wife, a 12 year old son that doesn't do his chores and a teenage daughter who is always kicking b......more

Callum is a Welsh arable farmer with a failing marriage, a teenage daughter who hates him and a young son who he desperately wishes won't grow up. It's harvest time, which is a great excuse for Callum to stay out of the house and not have to deal with them. That evening, there is a very strange clou......more