Dirtpickers, 9781786588401
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Hope and tragedy collide in a family seeking refuge and redemption.
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Dirtpickers

A haunting debut novel about survival, loyalty and the fragile bonds that turn strangers into family

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    25 May 2026

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Summary

‘Little Maude Rowe sits in the crick, her pockets heavy with gold, the blood on her palms turned to powdered rust …’

In a remote valley in Idaho in 1981, a man, a woman and three children stop running to wash the blood from their hands and bodies. They are the few survivors of a terrible tragedy. Their only choice now is, somehow, to become a family.

Five years earlier, Opal and her husband James arrive in the small mining community of Silver Valley, drawn by promises of fortu…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781786588401
ISBN-10:1786588404
Author:Edie May Hand
Publisher:Bonnier Books Ltd
Imprint:Echo
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:25 May 2026
Weight:0g
Dimensions:234mm x 153mm
About The Author

Edie May Hand

Edie May Hand is a writer from County Meath, Ireland. She graduated from University College Dublin in 2019 with a joint honours in History of Art and English Literature. She has been writing for over a decade. Edie began Dirtpickers as part of Maynooth University’s Creative Writing Masters Programme, for which she received a first-class honours degree in 2024. Dirtpickers is her debut novel and she is currently working on her second.

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