Three key events from each chapter of Harvest to learn

Chapter 1

• The dovecote is set on fire

• It becomes clear that Brooker Higgs and the Derby Twins are responsible

• Thirsk burns his hand, the villagers prepare to blame the Beldams

Chapter 2

• The villagers physically threaten the Beldams

• Mistress Beldam is introduced

• The men are put in the pillory and they all have their heads shaved

Chapter 3

• The villagers feel shame in the injustice

• Kent makes a speech but leaves out key bits for the harvest

• Thirsk makes the mistake of not helping the man in the pillory

Chapter 4

• Flashback to when Thirsk first arrives in the village

• Opportunity for reconciliation with the Beldams

• Lizzie Carr is chosen as the Gleaning Queen

Chapter 5

• The older Beldam dies in the pillory

• Jordan arrives in the village

Chapter 6

• Jordan talks of his plans for the village and profit

• Makes it clear that some of the villagers will leave

Chapter 7

• Willowjack has been killed violently

• Jordan threatens the villagers

• Thirsk shows his willingness to be useful to Jordan

Chapter 8

• Thirsk talks about how to make vellum

• He describes Quill’s maps as beautiful but not able to capture the work needed on the land

Chapter 9

• Anne Rogers, Kitty Gosse and Lizzie Carr have been ‘arrested’

• The villagers begin to turn against Thirsk

• They want to protest against the women being taken but cannot

Chapter 10

• Learn that the protest has been unsuccessful

• John Carr wants to speak with Thirsk inside because he is suspicious

• Flashback to Jordan’s plans and Kent’s lack of intervention

Chapter 11

• There is a meeting with the villagers that Thirsk is not invited to

• The villagers attack the groom

• All of the villagers leave

Chapter 12

• Jordan shows a strange politeness to Thirsk

• Thirsk agrees to help him with his plan

• There is a sense that Kent will never come back

Chapter 13

• Thirsk feeds the horses so they will get sick

• The cohort leave, with the women still imprisoned

• Lizzie Carr has lost her innocence

Chapter 14

• There are now only 4 people in the village

• Thirsk begins to think of himself as the ‘master’

• He releases Mr Beldam from the pillory and they plough the land

Chapter 15

• Thirsk has taken mushrooms and now thinks he has witnesses

• He shows classism towards the Beldams being in the manor house

• He frees the animals left

Chapter 16

• Thirsk returns to the manor house to find it pillaged

• Mistress Beldam starts burning down the village

• Thirsk discovers Quill’s body in the trunk

Chapter 17

• Thirsk reaches the village bounds

• He burns Quill’s work, leaving a blank slate

• Thirsk leaves the village