Cold Boy's Wood

Cold Boy's Wood
Carol Birch
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 352pg
11 Nov 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781838939434
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A body is uncovered in a mudslide just outside the village of Andwiston. In the pub they talk of a murder, but Dan - sometime mechanic, constant drunk - is finding it hard to sift through his jumbled memories. Fusing the ghost story with sharp, psychological insight, this is a brilliant and timely novel about loneliness, buried secrets and the havoc they play on the mind from Booker-shortlisted author Carol Birch. Did 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. Praise for Carol Birch: ' A naturally literary writer who can, with a simple image, evoke the deepest emotion' GUARDIAN ' Her prose has an irresistible vigour . . . her words sing on the page' FINANCIAL TIMES
PRAISE FOR CAROL BIRCH: ' Birch is a naturally literary writer who can, with a simple image, evoke the deepest emotion' Guardian. ' Carol Birch' s fiction continues to stretch bodies and minds to breaking point . . . Marvellous and terrifying' Sunday Times. ' One of the best stories I' ve ever read; an extraordinarily good and completely original book' A. S. Byatt, on Jamrach' s Menagerie. ' Her prose has an irresistible vigour . . . Her words sing on the page' Financial Times. ' Her candid northern voice cuts sadness free of sentimentality and finds intensity and drama in the everyday' The Times.
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.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781838939434
Published: 11 Nov 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Apollo
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 352

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