Reservoir 13
Jon McGregor
Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet home. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. The search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday life. As it must. As the seasons unfold there are those who leave the village and those who are pulled back; those who come together or break apart. There are births and deaths; secrets kept and exposed; livelihoods made and lost; small kindnesses and unanticipated betrayals. Bats hang in the eaves of the church and herons stand sentry in the river; fieldfares flock in the hawthorn trees and badgers and foxes prowl deep in the woods - mating and fighting, hunting and dying.
ISBN: 9780008204860
Author: McGregor, Jon
Publication date: 01/04/2017
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm
ISBN: 9780008204860
Author: McGregor, Jon
Publication date: 01/04/2017
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm