Devil's Day

The second novel from the Costa winning and bestselling author of The Loney 'The new master of menace' Sunday Times In the wink of an eye, as quick as a flea, The Devil he jumped from me to thee. And only when the Devil had gone, Did I know that he and I'd been one . . . Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the farm where he grew up to help gather the sheep down from the moors for the winter. Very little changes in the Endlands, but this year, his grandfather - the Gaffer - has died and John's new wife, Katherine, is accompanying him for the first time. Each year, the Gaffer would redraw the boundary lines of the village, with pen and paper, but also through the remembrance of tales and timeless communal rituals, which keep the sheep safe from the Devil. But as the farmers of the Endlands bury the Gaffer, and prepare to gather the sheep, they begin to wonder whether they've let the Devil in after all . . .

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Hurley is a superb storyteller. He leads you up on to the moors, into the eye of a snowstorm, dropping little clues, sinister hints at devilment and demonic possession. Then he changes course, scuffs over the prints in the snow, springs new villainies on you, abandons you overnight in the hills The Times

Product details

• Authors: Andrew M. Hurley, Andrew Michael Hurley, Hurley Andrew Michael
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781473619876
• ISBN: 978-1-4736-1987-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Horror; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Gothic, Folklore, myths & legends, Fiction: general and literary, Horror and supernatural fiction