'A beautiful evocative novel with an amazing sense of place & an understated dark sensibility A brilliant debut I loved it!' Jenni Fagan author of The Panopticon Mesmeric in its prose & mythic in its sweep THE BARROWFIELDS is an extraordinary debut about the darker side of devotion the limits of forgiveness & the reparative power of shared pasts Just before Henry Aster's birth his father a frustrated novelist & lawyer reluctantly returns to the remote North Carolina mountains in which he was improbably raised & installs his young family in a gothic mansion
- nicknamed 'the vulture house'
- worthy of his hero Edgar Allan Poe There Henry grows up under the desk of this fierce & brilliant man But when a death in the family tips his father toward a fearsome unravelling what was once a young son's reverence is poisoned & Henry flees not to return until years later when he too must go home again