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After her husband and four of her children are brutally murdered in the winter of 1897, midwife Elspeth Howell, along with her surviving son, 12-year-old Caleb, takes on the frozen wilderness to find the men responsible for shattering their family. (general fiction).
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"A classily written crime novel that is also an atmospheric evocation of a bygone era." (The Sunday Times)
"Darkly beautiful... The Kept is a rare blend of brutality and empathy, emotion and close observation. I thought at times of Cormac McCarthy's work and of the novels of David Vann. At other times it brought to mind Stef Penney's The Tenderness Of Wolves and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain. But there's something wonderfully distinctive about The Kept... A literary page-turner of the highest calibre by a writer of serious talent." (Jonathan Lee, author of JOY)
"Mysterious and compelling... James Scott has written a riveting and memorable debut novel." (Tom Perrotta, author of The Leftovers)
"With its vivid sense of time and place, lyrical writing, and complex questions of what constitutes a family, The Kept is an outstanding debut by a bright new voice in fiction." (Ron Rash, author of Serena and The Cove)
"Winter and discontent... Scott is the master of mood... Haunting'" (New York Times Book Review)
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"Darkly beautiful... The Kept is a rare blend of brutality and empathy, emotion and close observation. I thought at times of Cormac McCarthy's work and of the novels of David Vann. At other times it brought to mind Stef Penney's The Tenderness Of Wolves and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain. But there's something wonderfully distinctive about The Kept... A literary page-turner of the highest calibre by a writer of serious talent." (Jonathan Lee, author of JOY)
"Mysterious and compelling... James Scott has written a riveting and memorable debut novel." (Tom Perrotta, author of The Leftovers)
"With its vivid sense of time and place, lyrical writing, and complex questions of what constitutes a family, The Kept is an outstanding debut by a bright new voice in fiction." (Ron Rash, author of Serena and The Cove)
"Winter and discontent... Scott is the master of mood... Haunting'" (New York Times Book Review)
How far would you go for your family, for love, for survival, for revenge?
A debut novel of big skies, deep snow, and open wounds, the ambition and sheer brilliance of The Kept is astonishing.
A debut novel of big skies, deep snow, and open wounds, the ambition and sheer brilliance of The Kept is astonishing.
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1410468712
- ISBN 13 9781410468710
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages511
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