The Black Country by Kerry Hadley-Pryce

The Black Country by Kerry Hadley-Pryce

Maddie and Harry: shes an estate agent, hes a teacher. Theyll say they live in the Black Country. Theyll say how they met Jonathan Cotard, explain how they later argued, had a car accident, thought theyd killed someone. The Black Country. For Maddie and Harry, its darker than it should be.

This is an addictive book that deserves to be up there with the likes of Gone Girl and Girl On The Train it's as good, if not better, than bothA dark and unsettling read that leaves you feeling like a voyeur of a car crash relationship (where you wouldn't look away even if you could), I really enjoyed it - 9/10 stars

-- Andrew Angel * Ebookwyrm's Book Reviews *

A couple whose uneasy relationship seems as unreliable as that in Gone Girl are driving home, a little the worse for drink, when they accidentally knock someone over, someone they know - but they choose to drive quickly on. The story, and their relationship, becomes increasingly bizarre ...

* CrimeTime *

The Black Country is a macabre triumph, whether you read it as a horror fable about love or a meditation on the controlling character of the artist. Either way, this ambitious and memorable first novel loiters like a rotting fish left behind the fridge. I mean this in a good way. The Black Country really is something else.

-- James Kidd * The Independent on Sunday *

Every so often a novel lands from out of nowhere and grabs you by the eyeballs. Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl was one such, but at least Flynn had some previous form. Kerry Hadley-Pryce's haunting and unnerving The Black Country is a debut of gothic ambition. The cover hints at David Lynch, and this twisted portrait of a marriage in continual breakdown, of distrust, paranoia and love turned to contempt is a little as though Gone Girl had been reimagined by Lynch.

-- James Kidd * South China Morning Post *

The Black Country is an excellent book, written in an astonishing voice by a very good writer, and deserves a wide audience.

-- Graeme Shimmin

Kerry Hadley-Pryce lives and writes in the Black Country, UK. She has a PhD in creative writing and teaches creative and professional writing at the University of Wolverhampton. She co-edited Writing Under Fire: Poetry and Prose from Ukraine & the Black Country, and has short stories published in Best British Short Stories 2023, Takahe Magazine, Fictive Dream and The Incubator. She has had three novels published by Salt Publishing: The Black Country, Gamble, and God’s Country. Lie of the Land is her fourth novel.

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ISBN 13	9781784630348
ISBN 10	1784630349
Title	The Black Country
Author	Kerry Hadley-Pryce
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Salt Publishing
Year published	2015-09-15
Number of pages	176
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.