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Cold Boy's Wood

Carol Birch

Maison d'édition: Apollo

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Synopsis

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
 
'A beautifully written story of ghosts, loneliness and buried secrets' CHOICE
 
'Fusing the supernatural with the psychological, Birch's story is, at its heart, a human one' BIG ISSUE

Disponible depuis: 01/04/2021.

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