Beastings
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A teenage girl abducts a baby placed in her care. She is pursued through the vivid Cumbrian mountains of the recent past by a priest and a poacher. As she fights to stay alive, the priest's true motives become apparent in this dark rural tale about morality and the beauty and violence of landscape.
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Never have I seen a blurb on the back so accurately describe a book.
“Like an American Southern Gothic tale set against the violent beauty of Northern England, Beastings is a sparse and poetic novel about morality, motherhood and corruption.”
That about sums it up, very similar to Cormac McCarthy in style, mood, and restrained use of punctuation (think parts of The Road, Outer Dark & Child of God), but different enough to still feel original and unique and able to stand on it's own merits. It is hard to say a book is beautifully written when the mood is mostly dark, but this book would qualify as that.
