The Many

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Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 Observer Best Fiction of 2016 Den of Geek Top Books of 2016 Timothy Buchannan buys an abandoned house on the edge of an isolated village on the coast sight unseen When he sees the state of it he questions the wisdom of his move but starts to renovate the house for his wife Lauren to join him there When the villagers see smoke rising from the chimney of the neglected house they are disturbed & intrigued by the presence of the incomer intrigue that begins to verge on obsession & the longer Timothy stays the more deeply he becomes entangled in the unsettling experience of life in the small village Ethan a fisherman is particularly perturbed by Timothy's arrival but accedes to Timothy's request to take him out to sea They set out along the polluted coastline hauling in weird fish from the contaminated sea catches that are bought in whole & removed from the village Timothy starts to ask questions about the previous resident of his house Perran questions to which he receives only oblique answers & increasing hostility As Timothy forges on despite the villagers' animosity & the code of silence around Perran he starts to question what has brought him to this place & is forced to confront a painful truth The Many is an unsettling tale that explores the impact of loss & the devastation that hits when the foundations on which we rely are swept away