Description
Britain is awash, the sea creeps into the land, brambles and forest swamp derelict towns. Food production has moved overseas and people are forced to move to the cities for work. The countryside is empty.
A chorus, the herd voice of feral cows, wander this newly wild land watching over changing times, speaking with love and exasperation. Jesse and his puppy Mister Maliks roam the woods until his family are forced to leave for London. Lee runs from the terrible restrictions of the White Town where he grew up.
Isolde leaves London on foot, walking the abandoned A12 in search of the truth about her mother.
Peter Keeley (verified owner) –
Picked this up and didn’t do much else for a day and a half until I’d finished it. Will be on my best of 2021 list for sure. Magically written. Two of my favourite writers, Ronan Hession and Heidi James had both recommended it on twitter (and have endorsed it on the cover) which led me to ordering it, and so glad I did. Heidi and Ronan are both right, it is an excellent novel. Set in a not too distant future UK, damaged by a pandemic, politics and climate change where food production has all moved overseas and the countryside has become deserted as people move to the city for work. This novel felt very relevant to a post-Brexit damaged Britain. The prose is superb and had me completely engrossed.
And I shall never look at a cow again without trying to hear their chorus.