Barrowbeck - The chilling new novel from the author of Starve Acre

In a remote and seemingly cursed village on the Yorkshire Lancashire border, the inhabitants of Barrowbeck wrestle with life, death and a landscape that is wild and mercurial. Friends gather to support a widower whose wife has died in mysterious circumstances; an elderly teacher is unnerved by one of his pupils; a childless couple must make an agonising decision; sisters welcome a lodger into their home. Set over the course of a year, these gothic stories are riven with psychological trauma, unsettling events and encroaching darkness. Prepare to listen to the voices in the valley.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Michael Hurley, Hurley Andrew Michael
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2024
• EAN: 9781399817486
• ISBN: 978-1-399-81748-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 223 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, FICTION / Horror, Horror & ghost stories, Folklore, myths & legends, Fiction: general and literary, Horror and supernatural fiction, Folklore, myths and legends, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)