'[AN] ENGAGING, INVENTIVE LITERARY NOIR ... FULL OF NEAT TWISTS AND
POTENT WRITING' _INDEPENDENT _BOOK OF THE MONTH
'A FEISTY, SUBVERSIVE COUNTERVISION OF ENGLAND'S LOST FUTURES AND
BURIED LONGINGS' ROB DOYLE, AUTHOR OF _Threshold_
A BURLEY FISHER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
1969. Thomas Speake comes to London to look for his father but finds
Sanderson instead, a larger-than-life TV presenter who hosts 'midweek
madness' parties where the punch is spiked with acid. There Speake
meets Marnie and promises to help her find her adoptive child, who has
been taken by her birth mother to live off-grid in a hippie commune in
the Lake District.
Forced to lie low after a violent accident, Speake joins Sanderson on
a tour of the Lake District, where he's researching a book to
accompany his popular TV series, _Sanderson's Isle. _Fascinated by
local rumours about the hippies, Sanderson joins the search for their
whereabouts. Amid the fierce beauty of the mountains, the cult is
forming the kind of community that Speake - a drifter who belongs
nowhere - is desperate to find but has been sent to betray.
This is the follow up to James Clarke's Betty Trask Prize-winning
debut novel. It is filled with gorgeous nature writing of the urban
and the rural, and its portrayal of the moment when British society
was unsettled and transformed by the counterculture of the 1960s is
visionary and electrifying.
'PSYCHEDELIC 1960S LONDON, TV PERSONALITIES, COUNTERCULTURE IN THE
LAKE DISTRICT, A LOST CHILD! WASN'T I ALWAYS GOING TO READ THIS BOOK?
MAGNIFICENT' WENDY ERSKINE, AUTHOR OF _DANCE MOVE_
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ISBN
9781782836148
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Vendor
Serpent's tail
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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