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 & puts up a make-shift camp. That same night the local manor house is set on fire. Over the course of seven days Walter Thirsk sees his hamlet unmade: the harvest blackened by smoke & fear the new arrivals cruelly punished & his neighbours held captive on suspicion of witchcraft. But something even darker is at the heart of his story & he will be the only man left to tell it.. . Told in Jim Crace's hypnotic prose Harvest evokes the tragedy of land pillaged & communities scattered as England's fields are irrevocably enclosed. Timeless yet singular mythical yet deeply personal this beautiful novel of one man & his unnamed village speaks for a way of life lost for ever.