Devil's Day
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The second novel from the Costa winning and bestselling author of The Loney'The new master of menace' Sunday TimesIn the wink of an eye, as quick as a flea,The Devil he jumped from me to thee.And only when the Devil had gone,Did I know that he and I'd been one . . .Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the farm where he grew up to help gather the sheep down from the moors for the winter. Very little changes in the Endlands, but this year, his grandfather - the Gaffer - has died and John's new wife, Katherine, is accompanying him for the first time.Each year, the Gaffer would redraw the boundary lines of the village, with pen and paper, but also through the remembrance of tales and timeless communal rituals, which keep the sheep safe from the Devil. But as the farmers of the Endlands bury the Gaffer, and prepare to gather the sheep, they begin to wonder whether they've let the Devil in after all . . .
CONTRIBUTORS: Andrew Michael Hurley
EAN: 9781473619876
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 398 g
HEIGHT: 235 cm
PUBLISHED BY: John Murray Press
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GENRE: FICTION / Horror, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Gothic
WIDTH: 161 cm
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Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Horror and supernatural fiction
Hurley is a superb storyteller. He leads you up on to the moors, into the eye of a snowstorm, dropping little clues, sinister hints at devilment and demonic possession. Then he changes course, scuffs over the prints in the snow, springs new villainies on you, abandons you overnight in the hills, The nebulous presence of the Devil is evoked so palpably in this novel that at times I hardly dared look up when reading for fear of seeing him grinning at me from the chair next to mine, The new master of menace. This chilling follow-up to The Loney confirms its author as a writer to watch , Chilling and captivating; read at your peril, Beautifully captures a bleak landscape and the feeling of something evil and unknowable in the moors, the hills and the byways
Andrew Michael Hurley has lived in Manchester and London, and is now based in Lancashire. His first novel, The Loney, was originally published by Tartarus Press as a 300-copy limited edition, before being republished by John Murray. It went on to sell in twenty languages, win the Costa Best First Novel Award and Book of the Year at the British Book Industry Awards in 2016, and is in development as a feature film. Devil's Day is his second novel.
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The second novel from the Costa winning and bestselling author of The Loney'The new master of menace' Sunday TimesIn the wink of an eye, as quick as a flea,The Devil he jumped from me to thee.And only when the Devil had gone,Did I know that he and I'd been one . . .Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the farm where he grew up to help gather the sheep down from the moors for the winter. Very little changes in the Endlands, but this year, his grandfather - the Gaffer - has died and John's new wife, Katherine, is accompanying him for the first time.Each year, the Gaffer would redraw the boundary lines of the village, with pen and paper, but also through the remembrance of tales and timeless communal rituals, which keep the sheep safe from the Devil. But as the farmers of the Endlands bury the Gaffer, and prepare to gather the sheep, they begin to wonder whether they've let the Devil in after all . . .
CONTRIBUTORS: Andrew Michael Hurley
EAN: 9781473619876
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES:
WEIGHT: 398 g
HEIGHT: 235 cm
PUBLISHED BY: John Murray Press
DATE PUBLISHED:
CITY:
GENRE: FICTION / Horror, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Gothic
WIDTH: 161 cm
SPINE:
Book Themes:
Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Horror and supernatural fiction
Andrew Michael Hurley has lived in Manchester and London, and is now based in Lancashire. His first novel, The Loney, was originally published by Tartarus Press as a 300-copy limited edition, before being republished by John Murray. It went on to sell in twenty languages, win the Costa Best First Novel Award and Book of the Year at the British Book Industry Awards in 2016, and is in development as a feature film. Devil's Day is his second novel.
