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A searing family story from one of our most beloved writers
The village is called Mount of Zeal. It's built in a bowl like an amphitheater, with the winding gear where the stage would be. The pit lies below. Ted Howker's school is on the edge of Lower Terrace next to the chapel. Upper Terrace—in a thunderous echo of the Bible so loved by Ted's grandfather—is Paradise. Ted, his father, and his brothers live in Middle. In the beginning: a household of men, all of whom work in the pit.
Susan Hill is an exceptional writer at the height of her powers. Every word is precisely right: the descriptions of the village and the pit, the people and the farm are exact and true; the heartbreak is inevitable yet new; and the imagery and imagination take your breath away.
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“This is a story of people living hard lives,narrow lives which nevertheless have their own dignity. It is beautifully, evenlovingly, told, with not a superfluous word…Characters are sketched in a coupleof sentences and fixed in your imagination. Manner is perfectly matched withmatter; it’s impossible to suppose that the story could be better told.”
— Scotsman
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“A very slender novella but one in which Susan Hill deploys her not inconsiderable power to weave a haunting story.”
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“Hill’s beautiful, soulful descriptions of pit village life make this every bit as gripping as her longer spine-chilling stories.”
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“Taut, tense story, written with that unsparing economy which is such a feature of Hill’s recent fiction.”
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“A perfectly judged story of people living hard, narrow lives.”
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“Gripping all the way to its unexpected end.”
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“Hill’s taut prose exudes a constant darkness…You are left unsettled and haunted by the seeming inevitability of their troubled lives.”
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“In this taught, tense story, written with that unsparing economy which is such a feature of Hill’s recent fiction, everyone longs to escape…Ted is thoughtful, compassionate, loving, and misguidedly chivalrous…The sparseness of Hill’s style provides the perfect medium for exploring his predicament.”
— East Anglian Daily Times
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About Susan Hill
Susan Hill, the author of novels and short stories that have won the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham, and John Llewellyn Rhys awards, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her famous ghost story, The Woman in Black, has been a play on London’s West End and is the basis for a major feature film starring Daniel Radcliffe. Her crime novels featuring DCS Simon Serrailler are currently being adapted for TV. She has been a monthly columnist for the London Daily Telegraph. She has also written several nonfiction books and books for children, with Can It Be True? winning the Smarties Prize.
About Alison Larkin
Alison Larkin is a playwright, stage actress, stand-up comic, voice artist, and Earphones Award–winning narrator whose wide range of voices can be heard in cartoons and movies, including Pocahontas and The Wonder Pets.