Devil's Day
From the Costa winning and bestselling author of The Loney
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Devil's Day
Narrated by:
Richard Burnip
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About this listen
'The new master of menace' Sunday Times
A blizzard a century ago has passed into fable in the Endlands. Trapped by the snow, the residents of the valley found themselves at the mercy of the Devil, who brought death and destruction before being driven back to the moors.
Now, the three farming families of the Endlands face a new test. The patriarch of the community, the Gaffer, has died and his grandson, John Pentecost, must decide if he will return and work the land in his grandfather's stead. He feels the pull of duty, loyalty and tradition: obligations that his pregnant wife, Kat, finds hard to understand as an outsider. And as the celebrations of the Devil's exile draw near, she realises that there is a darkness in this place which cannot be repelled.
BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FT, METRO AND MAIL ON SUNDAY
'A work of goose-flesh eeriness' The Spectator©2017 Andrew Michael Hurley
Critic Reviews
Hurley is a superb storyteller. He leads you up on to the moors, into the eye of a snowstorm, dropping little clues, sinister hints at devilment and demonic possession. Then he changes course, scuffs over the prints in the snow, springs new villainies on you, abandons you overnight in the hills
The nebulous presence of the Devil is evoked so palpably in this novel that at times I hardly dared look up when reading for fear of seeing him grinning at me from the chair next to mine
The new master of menace. This chilling follow-up to The Loney confirms its author as a writer to watch
Chilling and captivating; read at your peril
Beautifully captures a bleak landscape and the feeling of something evil and unknowable in the moors, the hills and the byways
Hurley is a fine writer, with concerns that place him a little to the left of the literary mainstream, a remove that makes him extremely interesting (John Boyne)
This impeccably written novel tightens like a clammy hand around your throat
This is a story with pull. Its lively, building sense of evil is thoroughly entangled with the assumptions of the way of life depicted, that apparently timeless relationship of the smallholder and the moor
Makes for impressively uncomfortable reading
A gorgeously written novel that leaves the reader wondering and perturbed
Devil's Day is evocative and unsettling, exploring the potency of tradition, place and allegiance in a brutal rural environment
The follow up to The Loney deploys myth, landscape and the tropes of horror to chilling effect
Andrew Michael Hurley's The Loney was one of the surprise stand-outs of last year, and a worthy winner of the Costa First Novel Award. His new novel, Devil's Day is equally good . . . it is a work of goose-flesh eeriness . . . Hurley's work is like a reincarnation of novels such as John Buchan's Witch Wood or the stories of M.R. James. His prose is precise and his eye gimlet
A master of flesh-creeping menace. Around macabre happenings in a remote farming community on the bleak moors of the Lancashire-Yorkshire border, he weaves a terror tale of human vulnerability. Hidden horrors surface. Eerie malevolence flickers. Nature's routine cruelties are caught with a fierce accuracy that Ted Hughes would have admired
Andrew Michael Hurley is adept at making his readers' spines tingle
Hurley's first novel was The Loney, a prize-winning gothic triumph produced by a Yorkshire press, later picked up by John Murray. Devil's Day shares the same dark sense of foreboding . . . laced with menace
Expect pastoral lyricism - snowstorms sweeping in across an ancient landscape - spliced with gothic shivers
Great narration, very slow
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