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Devil's Day

By: Andrew Michael Hurley
Narrated by: Richard Burnip
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Book of the year in The Times, The Sunday Times, FT and Mail on Sunday

In the wink of an eye, as quick as a flea,

The Devil he jumped from me to thee.

And only when the Devil had gone,

Did I know that he and I'd been one....

Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the farm where he grew up to help gather the sheep down from the moors for the winter. Very little changes in the Endlands, but this year, his grandfather - the Gaffer - has died and John's new wife, Katherine, is accompanying him for the first time.

Each year, the Gaffer would redraw the boundary lines of the village, with pen and paper, but also through the remembrance of tales and timeless communal rituals, which keep the sheep safe from the Devil. But as the farmers of the Endlands bury the Gaffer, and prepare to gather the sheep, they begin to wonder whether they've let the Devil in after all….

©2017 Andrew Michael Hurley (P)2017 John Murray Press

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"The new master of menace." ( Sunday Times)

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Great narration, very slow

It's very atmospheric and spooky but the ending it builds up to isn't very satisfying. I don't need everything to be neatly resolved in a novel, but it just sort of comes to an abrupt end.

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