Perry Farm

In The Heart of a Lie, Esther Perry becomes the owner of Perry Farm. It is the most beautiful farm in her little village of Bayview, Maine.

I found these images of a farm here in Maine. I don't know where, but this is such an idyllic place:





Here is how I describe it in the novel:

"The Perry Farm was nestled in the shadow of the Camden hills, within a quarter mile from a large and clear blue pond that cupped the sky and the hills in a continuous blue and green reflection. I'd swam in the pond as a little girl, and though it had a local name I always called it the Hill Sky Pond. It seemed to be like a living sky surrounded by embracing hills.

Our home was large and white, built more than one hundred years earlier by some of the first settlers of Bayview. They knew good land when they saw it, for most of Bayview's shore and soil were littered with rocks like currants in a scone. Thanks to the towering pines and the relative safety from the sea wind by the hills, this land was good, the soil rich and fertile, the wind not quite as fierce as closer to the sea. The large gray barn sat back from the house, connected to our rear kitchen by a series of woodsheds and outbuildings. Fenced pastures gently sloped away and down towards the distant forest and the pond."