On leaving school a 16 year old boy goes to live with his uncle on a remote Welsh hill-farm. His aunt has recently committed suicide after losing her livestock in the foot-and-mouth epidemic and his uncle has turned, once again, to the bottle. The boy is an innocent, a spiritual savant, his uncle sees him as a shaman.
- Pages
- 162
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Random House
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780099461159