Three journeys Three thousand years One destination The Devil's Highway is a thrilling epic & timely tale of love loss fanaticism heroism & sacrifice Brilliant a powerful meditation on the damages
- & the good
- we have wrought & will wreak on the living world' Robert Macfarlane Book of the Year His fingers fastened about Her stone He brought it to the light & held it to his nose There was lightning locked inside He rolled the stone in his palm to give it the heat of his body She had come to him catching his eye where she lay among dull flints She alone among the stones had spoken An ancient British boy discovering a terrorist plot must choose between his brother & his tribe In the twenty-first century two men
- one damaged by war another by divorce
- clash over their differing claims on the land & a young girl is caught between them In the distant future a gang of feral children struggles to reach safety in a burning world A Roman road an Iron Age hill fort a h&-carved flint & a cycle of violence that must be broken As gripping as it is dazzling The Devil's Highway is a bold & intimate novel that spans centuries & challenges our dearest assumptions about what it means to be civilised