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Villager

Cox, Tom, 1975-2025
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Villages are full of tales: some are forgotten while others become a part of local folklore. But the fortunes of one West Country village are watched over and irreversibly etched into its history as an omniscient, somewhat crabby, presence keeps track of village life. In the late sixties a Californian musician blows through Underhill where he writes a set of haunting folk songs that will earn him a group of obsessive fans and a cult following. Two decades later, a couple of teenagers disturb a body on the local golf course. In 2019, a pair of lodgers discover a one-eyed rag doll hidden in the walls of their crumbling and neglected home. Connections are forged and broken across generations, but only the landscape itself can link them together. A landscape threatened by property development and superfast train corridors and speckled by the pylons whose feet have been buried across the moor.
Main title:
Villager / Tom Cox.
Author:
Imprint:
[London] : Swift, 2025.
Collation:
ix, 316 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Unbound, 2022.
ISBN:
9781800756076 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92F
LC class:
PR6103.O9
Language:
English
BRN:
4279758
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