Starve Acre

Zusatztext This sensuous and vivid gothic terror tale, set in a haunted house, is the best novel yet Informationen zum Autor Andrew Michael Hurley is based in Lancashire. His first novel, The Loney , won the Costa Best First Novel Award and the Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. Devil's Day , his second novel, was picked as a Book of the Year in five newspapers, and won the Encore Award. Starve Acre was made into a film starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark. Klappentext The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by the moors, was to be full of life, but is now a haunted place.Juliette, convinced Ewan still lives there in some form, seeks the help of the Beacons, a seemingly benevolent group of occultists. Richard, to try and keep the boy out of his mind, has turned his attention to the field opposite the house, where he patiently digs the barren dirt in search of a legendary oak tree.Starve Acre is a devastating new novel by the author of the prize-winning bestseller The Loney. It is a novel about the way in which grief splits the world in two and how, in searching for hope, we can so easily unearth horror. Zusammenfassung The disturbing folk horror novel from the author of Barrowbeck

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Michael Hurley, Hurley Andrew Michael
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781529387308
• ISBN: 978-1-5293-8730-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Horror & ghost stories, Folklore, myths & legends, Horror and supernatural fiction, Folklore, myths and legends, Contemporary horror and ghost stories