"A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. Soon after her arrival, a series of inexplicable events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly bo...

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Main Author:	Bernstein, Sarah 1987- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London Granta 2023
Subjects:	Fiktionale Darstellung
Summary:	"A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. Soon after her arrival, a series of inexplicable events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed with some intensity at her and she senses a mounting threat that lies 'just beyond the garden gate'. And as she feels the hostility growing, pressing at the edges of her brother's property, she fears that, should the rumblings in the town gather themselves into a more defined shape, who knew what might happen, what one might be capable of doing."--Klappentext
Item Description:	Shortlist The Booker Prize 2023, Granta Best of Young British Novelists 2023
Physical Description:	192 Seiten 20 cm
ISBN:	9781783789931 9781803510019