Relating to the countryside rather than the town

📝 They left the busy city for a quiet, rural village surrounded by fields.

📖 Roz is delivered to a rural world utterly unlike the wild island — a working farm of fences, barns, and open fields.

Farm animals kept for use or profit, such as cows, sheep, and pigs

📝 The farmer rose before dawn each day to feed the livestock.

📖 At Hilltop Farm, Roz is put to work caring for livestock — a herd of dairy cows who have never seen a robot before.

Grassy land where farm animals are put to graze

📝 The sheep wandered across the wide green pasture, nibbling as they went.

📖 Beyond the barn lies a wide green pasture where the cows graze, so different from the wild forest Roz once knew.

A house together with the land and buildings around it, especially a farm

📝 Three generations of the family had lived on the same small homestead.

📖 The homestead — farmhouse, barn, and surrounding fields — becomes Roz's new place of work, though never quite her home.

The practice of farming: growing crops and raising animals

📝 Modern agriculture uses machines to harvest enormous fields quickly.

📖 Roz must quickly learn the routines of agriculture — milking times, feeding, and the steady daily rhythms of the farm.

The entrance or doorway to a place; the point of stepping into somewhere new

📝 She paused on the threshold, nervous about entering the new classroom.

📖 Stepping across the threshold of the barn, Roz enters a strange new chapter of her life, far from the island.

The feeling of being confused about where you are or what is happening

📝 Waking in an unfamiliar room, he felt a moment of complete disorientation.

📖 At first Roz feels a quiet disorientation — everything here is fenced and ordered, unlike the wild she remembers.

Spreading out over a large area in an untidy or irregular way

📝 The sprawling shopping centre took nearly an hour to walk across.

📖 Hilltop Farm is a sprawling place of barns, sheds, and muddy yards spread across the rolling hills.

Attractively old-fashioned or unusual

📝 The quaint little tea shop still used cups and saucers from a hundred years ago.

📖 To Roz, the quaint old farmhouse with its creaking gates feels charming yet completely unfamiliar.

Relating to the countryside or regions far from the capital; simple and local

📝 After the bright city lights, the provincial town felt sleepy and slow.

📖 The farm sits in a quiet, provincial corner of the countryside, far from the city that built her.

A place where someone lives; a house or home

📝 The cave had served as a human dwelling thousands of years ago.

📖 The farmhouse is the family's dwelling, while Roz is given only a corner of the barn to stand in at night.

To move to a new place

📝 When her mother changed jobs, the whole family had to relocate to another town.

📖 Roz has been forced to relocate yet again — from the island, to the facility, and now to this distant farm.

Goods carried by a ship, plane, lorry, or other vehicle

📝 The ship's cargo of fruit had to be unloaded before it spoiled.

📖 Roz arrives as cargo, delivered to the farm in a crate like any ordinary piece of equipment.

Placing two very different things side by side so that each one stands out

📝 The painting used the juxtaposition of bright red against deep black to grab the eye.

📖 There is a striking juxtaposition at the farm: a gleaming robot standing among muddy cows and weather-worn barns.

A comparison of two things using the words 'like' or 'as'

📝 'As quiet as a mouse' is a simile that describes someone being very still and silent.

📖 The author often uses simile to describe Roz on the farm — she stands among the cows like a silver statue dropped into a field.