Winner of the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Winner of the 2014 James Tait Black Prize Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2013 Goldsmiths Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction As late summer steals in & the final pearls of barley are gleaned a village comes under threat A trio of outsiders
- two men & a dangerously magnetic woman
- arrives on the woodland borders triggering a series of events that will see Walter Thirsk&s village unmade in just seven days the harvest blackened by smoke & fear cruel punishment meted out to the innocent & allegations of witchcraft But something even darker is at the heart of Walter&s story & he will be the only man left to tell it