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A girl and a baby. A priest and a poacher. A savage pursuit through the landscape of a changing rural England.When a teenage girl abducts a child, a local priest and poacher are called upon to retrieve them. Chased through the Cumbrian mountains of a distant past, the girl fights starvation and the elements, encountering the hermits, farmers and hunters who occupy the remote hillside communities along the way. Like an American Southern Gothic tale set against the violent beauty of Northern Engkand, BEASTINGS is a sparse and poetic novel about morality, motherhood and corruption.
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Review:
"The evocation of landscape is intimate and elemental - Myers has the potential to become a true tragedian of the fells." - The Guardian "Benjamin Myers is quite simply an excellent and already accomplished writer. His prose is taut, confident, professionally polished but at the same time maintaining a sense of rustic and unrefined authenticity, that which is truly hewn." - Judge Sarah Hall, Northern Writers' Award "This bitter, alarming, occasionally visionary novel of the British wilderness is likely to linger in the mind for some time." - New Statesman "Beastings is just wonderful - tough and generous and beautiful" - Will Atkins, author of The Moor: Lives Landscape Literature 'BEASTINGS is a brilliant, brutal novel, told sparsley but with huge strength. It put me in mind of Ron Rash and Cormac McCarthy in the attention to landscape, and its muscular tone.' Robert Macfarlane.
About the Author:
Benjamin Myers was born in Durham in 1976. His previous novels include PIG IRON (2012), which won the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize and RICHARD (2010), a Sunday Times book of the year. As a journalist he writes about music and the arts for publications including THE GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, MOJO, CAUGHT BY THE RIVER and others. He currently lives in rural Yorkshire.
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- PublisherBluemoose Books Ltd
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0992791944
- ISBN 13 9780992791940
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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