In the Blood

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

North Wales, 1945.Twelve-year-old Jackie is an evacuee, Iolo, her host, is touched by Gwyn apNudd, the Welsh god of the chase, and from him Jackie learns hunting's ancientsecret lore. She knows every hound in his pack, every stream and covert intheir valley, and by sleeping in their kennels, understands their dreams. Bythe war's end she sees herself as more hound than girl.When her mothercomes to reclaim her, Jackie is transplanted to a derelict estate inWestmorland. Its owner, Major Wetheral, is the local Master of Foxhouds. But hisEnglish way of hunting flouts the Welsh god's lore, courting disaster for him andthe Wetheral line. His troubled fourteen-year-old, Oliver, is fiercely opposedto blood sports, and as the bond between Jackie and Oliver deepens the huntpresents new and frightening challenges for them both.Can Jackie,through her knowledge of the god, avert the doom that haunts the Wetherals? Orwill she be trapped in the fate of an English house and its master?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-08-02
Mått:162 x 241 x 25 mm
Vikt:550 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Psychology News Press Ltd
ISBN:9780907633907

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Romaner inom Skönlitteratur
Historiska äventyrsromaner inom Skönlitteratur

Recensioner i media

'Truly one of themost compelling novels I've read in years, In the Blood gripped me fromthe start and refused to let go. Jenny Newman's evocation of time and place issublime, as she conjures the aftermath of the second world war in the scraggycoat-tails or rural north Wales and Cumbria. Through the watchful eyes of our youngnarrator, Jackie, we see, smell and feel the exhausted countryside slowlyreturn to life. but nothing can be as it was. Mix in mythology, sharp socialhistory, exquisite nature writing and pinpoint characterisation, and you have awonderful story that never misses a beat' Mike Parker'In the Bloodis a growing up, coming-of-age tale set just after the war in a derelict Westmorlandcountry mansion, and the main theme is the hunt. This is fiction that doesn'tpull its punches. I found this novel utterly gripping and absorbing, very sharpon class and the historical period. But above all it's a terrific, bewitchingread.' Patricia Dunker'I read In the Bloodin a compulsive rush. Its evocation of a distorted, obsessive country childhood,of a last gasp of fox hunting feudalism and its passionate Welshness make itquite unlike anything else on offer. Think of a collaboration between Dodie Smithand Alan Garner filmed by Powell and Pressburger and you're very close to itsvivid mysteries. Highly recommended.' Patrick Gale'A tender exploration of class and childhoodthat exhilaratingly celebrates myth and imagination as spurs to change.' MicheleRogers