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Old Crow

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5th November 2015

Price: £3.49

Selected:  ebook / ISBN-13: 9780349007076

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FROM THE AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE (1996) AND THE WHITBREAD PRIZE (2003)

‘The Mackay vision . . . as rich in history and wonder as a plain Victorian terrace house’ GUARDIAN

‘A national treasure . . . She has achieved that rarest of things for a writer’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘A highly original talent’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT


The transition of Coral Fairweather from village beauty to village outcast begins in the short golden days of autumn with the fathering of her first child by a vagrant painter. Soon, fuelled by the suspicion and gossip of those who see, in Coral’s hand-to-mouth existence and crumbling cottage, a rejection of all that is respectable, rather than the fierce pride that prevents her from seeking help from the Authorities or from the man who would love her. Spurred on by a malicious widow, the Parish Council agree to purge their neat village of this ‘pariah’ and her children. This bitter witch hunt speeds towards a terrifying climax in a distinctive novel enriched by crystalline images of the natural world.

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Guardian
The Mackay vision . . . as rich in history and wonder as a plain Victorian terrace house
Times Literary Supplement
A highly original talent
Daily Telegraph
Shena Mackay is a national treasure . . . She has achieved that rarest of things for a writer