<p>''Dark, compelling, beautifully written''<br>Andrew Michael Hurley<br><br>In this eerie, atmospheric and mysterious tale, a woman returns to the house in Morecambe Bay where she grew up in the 1960s to find it falling apart, undermined by the roots of two huge sycamores. She is unaware that she has awoken the spirits of her parents, Jack and Nettie Clifford, who watch anxiously as their daughter Annette is overwhelmed by the state of the house and realise too late how far they neglected her as a child. <br><br>As their memories come alive, the story unfolds of a crucial summer when Annette was 8 and Nettie became too ill to run their boarding house. The lodgers have to go - all except the newly arrived butcher''s apprentice, because he seems to have miraculous healing powers and is Jack and Nettie''s last, desperate hope. But is he who he says he is? Why do those he lays his hands on feel an erotic charge? And why does he despise his own gift? As everything comes to a head, so too d
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<P><B>* SHORTLISTED FOR THE PORTICO PRIZE 2022 *</B><br><B><br>A deeply affecting and unconventional love story, shot through with anger, black humour and grief. </B><br><br>One ordinary morning, Laurie''s...
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Annie is obese, lonely and hopeful. Armed with self-help books, her cat and a collection of cow-shaped milk jugs, she moves into her new home and sets about getting to know the neighbours, especially the man next door. She ignores her neighbour''s...
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The tale of an English Mormon family and the day the cracks in their lives yawn into chasms, as savagely funny as it is tragic.
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