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The inspiration behind the Major Motion Picture starring Caleb Landry Jones
'Extraordinary' - The Guardian
'Inimitably excellent' - Boyd Tonkin, IndependentAs late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders - two men and a dangerously magnetic woman - arrives on the woodland borders triggering a series of events that will see Walter Thirsk's village unmade in just seven days: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, cruel punishment meted out to the innocent, and allegations of witchcraft.
But something even darker is at the heart of Walter's story, and he will be the only man left to tell it . . .
'Terrible, lyrical, beauty that is nothing like any other novel I have ever read' - Spectator'He is, quite simply, one of the great writers of our time' - Colum McCann
Winner of the James Tait Black PrizeWinner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardShortlisted for the Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths PrizeShortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionPart of the Picador Collection
About the author
Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of a dozen books, including
Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the
Guardian Fiction Prize),
Quarantine (1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize),
Being Dead (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award),
Harvest (shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and winner of the International Dublin Literary Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and
The Melody. He lives in Worcestershire.
