Devil's Day
The eerie folk horror novel from the author of Starve Acre
$34.19
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
25 September 2018
Summary
BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FT, METRO AND MAIL ON SUNDAY
‘The new master of menace’ *Sunday Times*
After the blizzard of a century ago, it was weeks before anyone got in or out. By that time, what had happened there, what the Devil had done, was already fable.
Devil’s Day is a day for children now, of course. A tradition it’s easy to mock, from the outside. But it’s important to remember why we do what we do. It’s impo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473619883 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473619882 |
| Author: | Andrew Michael Hurley |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 25 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
Hurley is a superb storyteller. He leads you up on to the moors, into the eye of a snowstorm, dropping little clues, sinister hints at devilment and demonic possession. Then he changes course, scuffs over the prints in the snow, springs new villainies on you, abandons you overnight in the hills - The Times
A masterly second novel - Mail on SundayThis is a story with pull. Its lively, building sense of evil is thoroughly entangled with the assumptions of the way of life depicted, that apparently timeless relationship of the smallholder and the moor - GuardianThe nebulous presence of the Devil is evoked so palpably in this novel that at times I hardly dared look up when reading for fear of seeing him grinning at me from the chair next to mine … a riveting, disturbing novel - Literary ReviewThe new master of menace. This chilling follow-up to The Loney confirms its author as a writer to watch … Hurley doesn’t need the devil’s help to grip you. His taut writing does that for him. Nature’s routine cruelties are caught with a fierce accuracy that Ted Hughes would have admired - Sunday Timesa work of goose-flesh eeriness … His prose is precise and his eye gimlet - The SpectatorAndrew Michael Hurley is adept at making his readers’ spines tingle - The Times, Books of the YearExpect pastoral lyricism - snowstorms sweeping in across an ancient landscape - spliced with gothic shivers - Mail on Sunday, Books of the YearAbout The Author
Andrew Michael Hurley
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.
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