Beastings by Benjamin Myers
A girl and a baby. A priest and a poacher. A savage pursuit through the landscape of a changing rural England. When a teenage girl leaves the workhouse and abducts a child placed in her care, the local priest is called upon to retrieve them. Chased through the Cumbrian mountains of a distant past, the girl fights starvation and the elements, encountering the hermits, farmers and hunters who occupy the remote hillside communities. Like an American Southern Gothic tale set against the violent beauty of Northern England, Beastings is a sparse and poetic novel about morality, motherhood, and corruption.
THE GALLOWS POLE by Benjamin Myers won the world's leading literary prize for historical fiction THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2018. BEASTINGS won The Portico literature Prize in 2015 and PIG IRON won The Gordon Burn Prize in 2013. Myers' is the recipient of the Society of Authors Roger Deakin Prize 2016 for The Gallows Pole. He also won the Northern Writers Award 2014 and the Society of Authors Tom Gallon Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780992791940 |
| ISBN 10 | 0992791944 |
| Title | Beastings |
| Author | Benjamin Myers |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bluemoose Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2014-07-03 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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