# The Orchard - Paperback

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by **Peter Heller** (Author)

**Peter Heller's masterful coming-of-age tale, the story of a mother and daughter living on a Vermont apple orchard, escaping ghosts of the past.**

Hayley and her seven-year-old daughter, Frith, live in a rustic cabin with no electricity in the foothills of Vermont's Green Mountains. A renowned translator of Tang dynasty poetry, Hayley walked away from her career and her addict husband to raise Frith alone in a land populated not by ambition-fueled academics but by hawks, beavers, and other wild things--including their exuberant Bernese Mountain dog, Bear. They get by on what little they earn from their overgrown apple orchard and the syrup they make from their maple trees. Frith-- precocious, homeschooled, and a voracious reader--considers herself queen of this backwoods paradise. She is too young to understand the pain and regret that have followed her mother here.

Season after season, it is the three of them--mother, daughter, and dog--until the spring day when Rose Lattimore appears at their door and upends Hayley and Frith's solitary existence. When tragedy unexpectedly strikes, Frith must come to terms with heartbreak for the very first time. By turns joyful and searing, _The Orchard_ reminds us that, even during the hardest of times, the enduring power of nature, love, and friendship will prevail.

### Author Biography

Peter Heller is the national best-selling author of _Burn, The Last Ranger, The Guide, The River, Celine, The Painter,_ and _The Dog Stars_. _The Painter_ was a finalist for the _Los Angeles Times_ Book Prize and won the prestigious Reading the West Book Award, and _The Dog Stars_ has been published in twenty-six languages to date. Heller is also the author of four nonfiction books, including _Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave,_ which was awarded the National Outdoor Book Award for Outdoor Literature. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in poetry and fiction, and he lives in Denver, Colorado.

**Number of Pages:** 320

**Dimensions:** 1 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN

**Publication Date:** December 02, 2025

**Large Print:** Yes

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