An exceptional first novel
- The Sunday Times
Christopher Hart has produced a brilliant, unsentimental, and frequently devastating requiem to a vanishing part of England
- Metro North East
A debut novel about adolescence and first love, English nature and the profound changes affecting the rural landscape. With no job and no prospects, young country-boy Lewis Pike is casually seduced by a married woman. When she ends the relationship, his fragile world disintegrates.
Christopher Hart (born 1965) is an English novelist and journalist.
He currently writes regularly for the Sunday Times, where he is lead theatre critic. He also freelances for the Literary Review, The Bookseller, Guardian and the Daily Telegraph