Bookclub: Meet me at the Surface
October 25, 2024 1:22 pmby Jodie Matthews
Hardback available from the Cornish Authors bookshop £17
A haunting ode to Cornish folklore and the secrets of the places we call home
Everything that comes from the ground has to go back down… eventually
Merryn grew up on the wilds of Bodmin moor, raised by her mother and her aunt in an old farmhouse. Here, the locals never leave the village, fear for the future of their farms and cling desperately to the folkloric tales that are woven into their history. Except Merryn, who has escaped to Manchester for university, briefly untethering herself from her past.
When Merryn returns home for the memorial service of her ex-girlfriend Claud, she finds her childhood home stranger and more secretive than ever. She’s sure that her mother is hiding something. The villagers are hunting on the moors at night, but for what? And then there’s a notebook, found in an old chest of drawers, full of long-forgotten folklore that seems to be linked somehow to Claud…
‘This powerfully brutal novel is the most exciting thing I’ve read in years’ S. J. WATSON
‘A strange and beautiful novel’ OBSERVER
‘A book where language feels like hands reaching into the soil, where landscapes feel alive, where sentences, houses and memory are suffused with the uncanny’ TOM DE FRESTON
Print length: 304 pages
Language: English
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Publication date: 15 Feb. 2024
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