The Borrowed Hills - Scott Preston

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHOR'S CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2025LONGLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2025'Viscerally vivid . . . a sucker-punch of a novel, edged with knife-sharp black humour and shot through with moments of startling beauty . . . half Tarantino and half pitch-black northern realism' Guardian'A tremendously exciting novel . . . A brilliantly realized voice: Steve's every utterance is the product of where he comes from . . . as blunt and brutal as the fells he works among' Times Literary Supplement'A spiky, precisely focused novel with flavour, intensity, and oodles of character' The Times'Preston's debut arrives like a punch to the gut . . . This is an elemental tale shaded in tones of heroism, machismo, moral intensity, and mythmaking. It's also a love song to the landscape . . . Gritty, gripping, and fearlessly committed' Kirkus'Exhilarating, and so eccentric and epic, it feels like a Coen brothers film. A brilliant, new, modern voice . . . so unique, so dark and so bleak, and yet it rises to breathtaking heights of poetry' Russel T Davies'Taught, intelligent and beautifully told' M. J. Hyland'A startlingly original addition to the literature of northern England' Ian McGuire'A powerful evocation of a landscape and a way of life' Joseph KanonWith foot and mouth disease spreading across the hills of Cumbria, emptying the valleys of sheep and filling the skies with smoke, two neighbouring shepherds
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