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The Wanderers: The West Country Trilogy(The West Country Trilogy)

The Wanderers: The West Country Trilogy(The West Country Trilogy)


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The beautiful, questing second novel in Tim Pears' acclaimed West Country trilogy. Two teenagers, bound by love yet divided by fate, forge separate paths in pre-First World War Devon and Cornwall 1912. Leo is on a journey. Aged thirteen and banished from the secluded farm of his childhood, he travels through Devon, grazing on berries and sleeping in copses. Behind him lies the past, and before him the West Country, spread out like a tapestry. But a wanderer is never alone for long, try as he might – and soon Leo is taken in by gypsies, with their waggons, horses and vivid attire. Yet he knows he cannot linger, and must forge on to Penzance, towards the western horizon… Lottie is at home. Life on the estate continues as usual, yet nothing is as it was. Her father is distracted by the promise of new love and Lottie is increasingly absorbed in the natural world: the profusion of wild flowers in the meadow, the habits of predators, and the mysteries of anatomy. And of course, Leo is absent. How will the two young people ever find each other again? In The Wanderers, Tim Pears’s writing, both transcendental and sharply focused, reaches new heights, revealing the beauty and brutality that coexist in nature. Timeless, searching, charged with raw energy and gentle humour, this is a delicately wrought tale of adolescence; of survival; of longing, loneliness and love.

About the Author :
Tim Pears is the author of nine novels, including In the Place of Fallen Leaves (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award), In a Land of Plenty (made into a ten part BBC series), Landed (shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012 and the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2011, winner of the MJA Open Book Awards 2011) and, most recently, The Horseman, the first book in this trilogy. He has been Writer in Residence at Cheltenham Festival of Literature and Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. He lives in Oxford with his wife and children. timpears.com

Review :
Pears’s fiction has been likened to Thomas Hardy’s, and the comparison is apposite. As a coming-of-age novel, The Horseman is wise and insightful. As a love story, it is moving and sincere. And as a portrayal of rural Edwardian England, it is powerful, vivid and humane With hypnotic lyricism, Pears describes this bucolic Devon world and the people who inhabit it The pleasure of it lies in taking in the language and the setting … and in reading it like a long poem, with each chapter a stanza ... I am ready for volume two So gripping that devouring volume two the second it appears is a foregone conclusion … As a testament to a forgotten generation of countrymen it is unsurpassed A mesmerising book … An evocation of the pre-First World War countryside, sparely written and imagined with exceptional fidelity An exhilarating vision, a bittersweet elegy for the innocent certainties of an agrarian world before the industrialised horrors of the 20th century come crashing down Combines meticulously researched historical material … with lush, languorous, melodic prose … A distinctly compelling pastoral bildungsroman that leaves the reader eager for the next instalment Graceful … This book needs to be read with quiet attention to reap its rich rewards


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781408892336
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Sub Title: The West Country Trilogy
  • Width: 135 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1408892332
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jan 2018
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: The West Country Trilogy
  • Weight: 524 gr


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