The Borrowed Hills - 'A sucker-punch of a novel' Guardian

Early this century, Stephen Elliman''s family farm Caldhithe is one of the first to have its flock culled as foot and mouth disease rages over Cumbria. Stephen hears the local outbreak was caused by neighbouring farmer William Herne, and he visits that farm to seek vengeance. So begins a beautifully written sometimes violent story of farming against a rural background where survival is a daily business and where the land''s savagery is only matched by its magnificence. Stephen is drawn into a family dynamic when he accepts board and lodging on Caldhithe in exchange for physical labour on the farm and he is then forced to make some very difficult choices. He realises he is drawn more and more towards William''s wife Helen, but can he save her as well as himself and the farming community? Visceral, mythic, compulsive, These Borrowed Hills is written in a language that feels hewn from the land.

Product details

• Authors: Scott Preston, Preston Scott
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.04.2024
• EAN: 9781399812856
• ISBN: 978-1-399-81285-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 232 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary