Cold Boy's Wood

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Beschreibung

<p><b>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. </b><br><br><i>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! </i><br><br>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.<br><br>Fusing the ghost story with sharp, psychological insight, <i>Cold Boy's Wood</i> is an arresting, timely novel about loneliness, buried secrets and the havoc they play on the mind.<br><br><b>'A naturally literary writer who can, with a simple image, evoke the deepest emotion' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br><b>'A haunting murder mystery, <i>Cold Boy's Wood</i> is also a double portrait of damaged souls' <i>Sunday Times</i> Crime Club</b><br><br><b>'Fusing the supernatural with the psychological, Birch's story is, at its heart, a human one' <i>Big Issue</i></b><br><br><b>'Her prose has an irresistible vigour... Her words sing on the page' <i>Financial Times</i></b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781838939434

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

196 x 128 x 26 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

Bloomsbury USA