As a young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family's past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry of the love of home and the longing to get away from it.
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Tom Rouse
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Young Tom Rouse
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Peter Tuddenham
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