Summary
A searing family story from one of our most beloved writers.
‘Powerful… Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece’ - Sunday Mirror
Brother and sister, Ted and Rose Howker, grew up in Mount of Zeal, a mining village blackened by coal. They know nothing of the outside world, though both of them yearn for escape. For Rose this comes in the form of love, while Ted seizes the chance of a job away from the pit. But neither can truly break free and their decisions bri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099539568 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009953956X |
| Author: | Susan Hill |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2014 |
| Weight: | 100g |
| Dimensions: | 194mm x 128mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
Compulsively readable
Powerful… Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece * Sunday Mirror *Compulsively readable * Irish Examiner *Hill deploys her not inconsiderable power to weave a haunting story * Daily Mail *Beautifully, even lovingly, told * Scotsman *There is something Hardyesque in the tragic momentum of this story * Guardian *Gripping all the way to its unexpected end – Simon Baker * Spectator *A perfectly judged story of people living hard, narrow lives * Observer *Hill’s beautiful, soulful descriptions of pit village life make this every bit as gripping as her longer spine-chilling stories * Sunday Mirror *In this taught, tense story, written with that unsparing economy which is such a feature of Hill’s recent fiction, everyone longs to escape… Ted is thoughtful, compassionate, loving and misguidedly chivalrous… The sparseness of Hill’s style provides the perfect medium for exploring his predicament * East Anglian Daily Times *Hill’s taut prose exudes a constant darkness… you are left unsettled and haunted by the seeming inevitability of their troubled lives * Stylist *
About The Author
Susan Hill
Susan Hill has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I’m the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and The Mist in the Mirror. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story The Woman in Black is one of the longest running in the history of London’s West End. In 2020 she was awarded a damehood (DBE) for services to literature. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.
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