Cold Boy's Wood
Carol Birch
Cold Boy's Wood
Carol Birch
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Description
A body is uncovered in a mudslide just outside the village of Andwiston. In the pub they talk of a murder, but Dan – sometime mechanic, constant drunk – is finding it hard to sift through his jumbled memories.
'At once elusive and intense, this suspenseful psychological mystery teems with ghosts from the past as a body is unearthed in a rural village' LoveReading.
Although a haunting murder mystery, Cold Boy's Wood is also a double portrait of damaged souls: Lorna, who lives rough, and Dan, an alcoholic mechanic adopted by stray cats. Few crime novels are so moving
A beautifully written story of ghosts, loneliness and buried secrets
PRAISE FOR CAROL BIRCH: 'Birch is a naturally literary writer who can, with a simple image, evoke the deepest emotion' Guardian. 'Carol Birch's fiction continues to stretch bodies and minds to breaking point... Marvellous and terrifying' Sunday Times. 'One of the best stories I've ever read; an extraordinarily good and completely original book' A.S. Byatt, on Jamrach's Menagerie. 'Her prose has an irresistible vigour... Her words sing on the page' Financial Times. 'Her candid northern voice cuts sadness free of sentimentality and finds intensity and drama in the everyday'
Carol Birch is the award-winning writer of twelve novels, including Jamrach's Menagerie, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2011. Her first novel, Life in the Palace, won the David Higham Award for Fiction (Best First Novel of the Year), and her second novel, The Fog Line, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Born in Manchester, she now lives in Lancaster.
Carol Birch is the award-winning writer of twelve novels, including Jamrach's Menagerie, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2011. Her first novel, Life in the Palace, won the David Higham Award for Fiction (Best First Novel of the Year), and her second novel, The Fog Line, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Born in Manchester, she now lives in Lancaster.