Runt

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On leaving school a sixteen-year-old boy goes to live with his uncle on a remote Welsh hill-farm. His aunt has recently committed suicide after losing her livestock in the foot-&-mouth epidemic & his uncle has turned, once again, to the bottle.

The boy is a spiritual savant: an unwitting repository of folk memory from the margins, barely educated but possessed of extraordinary insights; barely literate but able to speak a language of his own
- a poetry laden with Pagan & Christian myth.

He is unaware that he is gifted & unaware of what he knows. But during one of his ecstatic trances, the boy learns that he has an appointed role in the world, which he must discover for himself. During an episode of brutal & climactic violence, he does exactly that.

Told through the boy's internal monologue of beauty & damage, Runt is a powerful, disturbing & moving novel that reinvigorates the language of fiction & illuminates domestic tragedy with a penetrating epic light.

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An extraordinary read that all who like contemporary fiction should read.

This paperback book has 160 pages & measures: 19.7 x 13.6 x 1.1cm.