Mercia's Take

Mercia's Take
Daniel Wiles
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h198 x 129mm - 208pg
6 Oct 2022 UK
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9781800750845
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1870s, the Black Country. Michael is a miner. But it' s no life for a man. Michael exhausts himself working two jobs, to send his son Luke to school, so he won' t have to be a miner too. Down the pit one day, he finds a seam of gold. If he gets it out, he can save his own life, and Luke' s. But his workmate has other ideas. . . ' Read this novel and marvel at its language, dark and gleaming as obsidian. . . A striking debut' - Paul Lynch ' Energy and passion fuels this harsh and beautiful first novel; Daniel Wiles connects us viscerally to the past we have buried, the history we choose to ignore' - Hilary Mantel
' Read this novel and marvel at its language, dark and gleaming as obsidian. Daniel Wiles channels the Southern Gothic into the vernacular of the Black Country and unearths from the past a tale of desperation that speaks to our current damnation. A striking debut' - Paul Lynch' Energy and passion fuels this harsh and beautiful first novel; Daniel Wiles connects us viscerally to the past we have buried the history we choose to ignore' - Hilary Mantel' Feverishly compulsive . . . Narrated with spectacular economy, in a thudding, rhythmic staccato studded with local vernacular, the book deftly folds themes of pride, masculinity and ecological ruin into its central story: the visceral vengeance quest that ensues after a fellow miner makes off with Michael' s life-changing haul of gold' - The Observer, 10 best debut novelists of 2022' Unsettling and heart-wrenching, this debut marks Wiles as a formidable talent' - Antonia Senior, The Times
Daniel Wiles is from Walsall in the West Midlands. He recently completed the Prose MA at UEA, where he was the recipient of the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship. Mercia' s Take is his first novel.

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