Carol Birch
Cold Boy's Wood
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'A naturally literary writer who can, with a simple image, evoke the deepest emotion' GUARDIANDid you hear? Big landslip over by Ercol. Last night. The road into Gully's closed off. They found a body. Got police tape. All that stuff. They only do that for murder, don't they? Murder!A body has been uncovered in a mudslide just outside the village of Andwiston. In the pub they talk of murder, but Dan - sometime mechanic, constant drunk - is finding it hard to sift through his jumbled memories. Watching him from the dark is Lorna, a lost soul living in the woods, haunted by ghosts and a vision from her childhood: a cold boy standing alone in Gal…
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'A naturally literary writer who can, with a simple image, evoke the deepest emotion' GUARDIANDid you hear? Big landslip over by Ercol. Last night. The road into Gully's closed off. They found a body. Got police tape. All that stuff. They only do that for murder, don't they? Murder!A body has been uncovered in a mudslide just outside the village of Andwiston. In the pub they talk of murder, but Dan - sometime mechanic, constant drunk - is finding it hard to sift through his jumbled memories. Watching him from the dark is Lorna, a lost soul living in the woods, haunted by ghosts and a vision from her childhood: a cold boy standing alone in Gallinger's field.Fusing the ghost story with sharp, psychological insight, this brilliant, timely novel about loneliness, buried secrets and the havoc they play on the mind, cements Carol Birch as one of our most important literary writers.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-83893-940-3
- EAN: 9781838939403
- Produktnummer: 35041598
- Verlag: Head of Zeus
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Carol Birch is the award-winning writer of twelve novels. Her first, Life in the Palace won the David Higham Award for Fiction (Best First Novel of the Year), and her second novel, The Fog Line, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Jamrach's Menagerie, published in 2011, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the Galaxy National Book Award (Waterstone's UK Author of the Year), and was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the London Book Award. Born in Manchester, she now lives in Lancaster.
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