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Synopsis

This is the voice of our narrator, Sam Marsdyke, the teenage son of a farmer up on the Yorkshire Moors. He spends his days working the sheep, mending fences, trying to dodge the eye of his brutal, silent father, and most of all, watching the transformation of the farms and villages around him. From the top of the moors he watches the goofy ramblers and the earnest 'towns', the families from York, who are feverishly buying up the farmhouses left empty by bankrupt farmers. And as he watches, one young daughter of a new family catches his eye. As he falls for the young, sophisticated girl from London, she begins to see him as a means to escape. She wants to rebel against her parents and he wants to fulfil the fantasy he harbours about her and so they run away together. But this journey across the moors will take a terrifying menacing turn which, for him, will prove his terrible undoing.

Sam Marsdyke is an unforgettable character at the heart of this extraordinary novel, a novel that is hugely funny, darkly menacing and will resonate long after you have finished the last page.

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Critic Review:

‘Another to keep an eye on is this 28-year-old, whose first novel…is a mature, taut and beautifully written study of a perennial outsider.'
Sunday Times

‘one of the most eagerly awaited literary debuts of 2008…It begins as a finely observed coming-of-age sotrybut moves into darker territory.’
Observer

‘publishing insiders are already calling ‘one of the best books you’ll read in 2008’.
Yorkshire Post

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