A remarkable and deeply affecting novel.
Adam Foulds was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 2008. He is the author of the novel The Truth About These Strange Times, as well as the narrative poem The Broken Word, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize the 2008 Costa Poetry Award. He lives in London. Colin Moody's acting credits extend across the theatre stage, small screen and silver screen. Assuming leading roles in numerous productions for companies such as the Sydney Theatre Company and the Melbourne Theatre Company, his theatre work includes Cruel and Tender, The Crucible, Great Expectations and Angels in America. He has appeared in television dramas such as Something in the Air, Stingers and The Flying Doctors, and his film credits include Road to Alice, Escape from Absolom and The Wayfarers.
"A seamless blend of historical fact and fiction... Foulds' writing
has a poetic intensity and his descriptions are piercingly
keen."
*The Daily Mail*
"Most notable for its savage descriptions of rural life."
*The Guardian*
"‘Intensely pleasurable to read – studded with electrically acute
images and phrases."
*The Observer*
"The language is simple, sometimes adorned with fleeting and apt
images."
*Literary Review*
"It's a work of strikingly beautiful, unforced writing."
*The Daily Express*
"A vividly sympathetic exploration of poetry, madness and
identity."
*The Week*
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