1969. Thomas Speake comes to London to look for his father but
finds Sanderson instead, a larger-than-life TV presenter who hosts
'midweek madness' parties where the punch is spiked with acid.
There Speake meets Marnie and promises to help her find her
adoptive child, who has been taken by her birth mother to live
off-grid in a hippie commune in the Lake District. Forced to lie
low after a violent accident, Speake joins Sanderson on a tour of
the Lake District, where he's researching a book to accompany his
popular TV series, Sanderson's Isle. Fascinated by local rumours
about the hippies, Sanderson joins the search for their
whereabouts. Amid the fierce beauty of the mountains, the cult is
forming the kind of community that Speake - a drifter who belongs
nowhere - is desperate to find but has been sent to betray. This is
the follow up to James Clarke's Betty Trask Prize-winning debut
novel. It is filled with gorgeous nature writing of the urban and
the rural, and its portrayal of the moment when British society was
unsettled and transformed by the counterculture of the 1960s is
visionary and electrifying.
General
Imprint: |
Serpent's Tail
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
July 2023 |
Authors: |
James Clarke
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Dimensions: |
216 x 135mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
320 |
Edition: |
Main |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78816-353-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
|
LSN: |
1-78816-353-2 |
Barcode: |
9781788163538 |
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