Barrowbeck
Andrew Michael Hurley
Oct 2024 · John Murray · Narrated by Gabriella Pond and Matt Jamie
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About this audiobook
For centuries, the inhabitants of Barrowbeck, a remote valley on the Yorkshire-Lancashire border, have lived uneasily with forces beyond their reckoning. They raise their families, work the land, and do their best to welcome those who come seeking respite. But there is a darkness that runs through the village as persistently as the river.
A father fears that his daughter has become possessed by something unholy.
A childless couple must make an agonising decision.
A widower awaits the return of his wife.
A troubled man is haunted by visions of end times.
As one generation gives way to the next and ancient land is carved up in the name of progress, darkness gathers. The people of Barrowbeck have forgotten that they are but guests in the valley. Now there is a price to pay. Two thousand years of history is coming to an end.
'Impeccably written . . . tightens like a clammy hand around your throat' Daily Mail on The Loney
'A work of goose-flesh eeriness' The Spectator on Devil's Day
'A tale of suspense that sucks you in and pulls you under' New Statesman on Starve Acre
A father fears that his daughter has become possessed by something unholy.
A childless couple must make an agonising decision.
A widower awaits the return of his wife.
A troubled man is haunted by visions of end times.
As one generation gives way to the next and ancient land is carved up in the name of progress, darkness gathers. The people of Barrowbeck have forgotten that they are but guests in the valley. Now there is a price to pay. Two thousand years of history is coming to an end.
'Impeccably written . . . tightens like a clammy hand around your throat' Daily Mail on The Loney
'A work of goose-flesh eeriness' The Spectator on Devil's Day
'A tale of suspense that sucks you in and pulls you under' New Statesman on Starve Acre
About the author
Andrew Michael Hurley is based in Lancashire. His first novel, The Loney, was originally published by Tartarus Press as a 300-copy limited edition, before being republished by John Murray. It went on to sell in twenty languages, win the Costa Best First Novel Award and the Book of the Year at the British Book Industry Awards. Devil's Day, his second novel, was picked as a Book of the Year in five newspapers, and won the Encore Award.
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