God's Country
Published on 15. February 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-78463-265-6 (ISBN)
Description
Guy Flood, returns to the Black Country with his girlfriend, Alison, to attend his identical twin brother's funeral. The reasons he left, and the secrets he left behind, slowly become clear. A chilling dark fiction, dominated by unknown and all-seeing narrator.
Reviews / Votes
God's Country, by Kerry Hadley-Pryce, is a disturbingly atmospheric story set in The Black Country, a place without borders marked on maps, yet has shaped generations of people raised within its haunting environs. The narrator - a fabulously unsettling voice - is constructing a tale based on their own knowledge of the characters and place, and from what they have been told by the protagonist, Alison. It is made clear that this source may not be entirely reliable. Highly recommended. -- Jackie Law * neverimitate * Written in the distinctive Black Country dialect, Alison is an outsider who can't always understand what's being said, who doesn't understand the ripples between the family, much like the reader, she's kept at bay. An unsettling and unusual read. * Ramblingmads *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
140 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78463-265-6 (9781784632656)
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Kerry Hadley-Pryce lives and writes in the Black Country, UK. She has a PhD in creative writing and teaches creative and professional writing at the University of Wolverhampton. She co-edited Writing Under Fire: Poetry and Prose from Ukraine & the Black Country, and has short stories published in Best British Short Stories 2023, Takahe Magazine, Fictive Dream and The Incubator. She has had three novels published by Salt Publishing: The Black Country, Gamble, and God's Country. Lie of the Land is her fourth novel.