Searching in the dark to light up life’s stories

THE landscape where Jane Urquhart sets her latest novel is as rich in stories as it once was in the fruit trees the eccentric Stanley Butler cultivated.

Searching in the dark to light up life’s stories

His niece, Liz, recently returned to the abandoned orchards to study the migrating monarch butterflies that so fascinated her as a child, tends those tales the way Stanley once cared for his crops.

Blending memories of cherished childhood summers on the farm with family folklore passed down through the generations, she keeps the land alive in her mind long after the trees have ceased to produce.

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