Super Short Summary

Told from Walter Thirsk’s perspective, Harvest (2013), a literary/historical novel by Jim Crace, deals with themes of displacement and progress. Set in a remote English village, the story recounts the village's response to external threats: a lean harvest, the Enclosure Acts, the arrival of three displaced strangers, a surveying mapmaker, and a greedy land-grabber seeking to convert croplands to sheep farming. The novel includes instances of violence and false accusations of witchcraft involving women and children.