Black Sheep by Susan Hill

Black Sheep by Susan Hill

Powerful Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece Sunday Mirror Brother and sister, Ted and Rose Howker, grew up in Mount of Zeal, a mining village blackened by coal. For Rose this comes in the form of love, while Ted seizes the chance of a job away from the pit.

Powerful… Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece * Sunday Mirror *
Compulsively readable * Irish Examiner *
Hill deploys her not inconsiderable power to weave a haunting story * Daily Mail *
Beautifully, even lovingly, told * Scotsman *
There is something Hardyesque in the tragic momentum of this story * Guardian *

SUSAN HILL has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I'm the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and The Mist in the Mirror. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story The Woman in Black is one of the longest running in the history of London's West End. In 2020 she was awarded a damehood (DBE) for services to literature. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.

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ISBN 13	9780099539568
ISBN 10	009953956X
Title	Black Sheep
Author	Susan Hill
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2014-11-06
Number of pages	144
Prizes	Short-listed for East Anglian Book Award for Fiction 2014 (UK)
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