The Black Country
Author(s): Kerry Hadley-Pryce
Maddie and Harry: she's an estate agent, he's a teacher. They'll say they live in the Black Country. They'll say how they met Jonathan Cotard, explain how they later argued, had a car accident, thought they'd killed someone. Thought they had. And as they search for a truth, they'll tell us their secrets, their mistakes. And we'll judge them. We'll judge Harry's fling with a schoolgirl and Maddie's previous life. We'll judge the nature of love and violence, good and evil. The Black Country. For Maddie and Harry, it's darker than it should be.
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Begs to be read in one go, tugging the reader onwards through its intense and strangely intimate world. -- Alison Moore Obliquely yet menacingly told, increasingly horrific, and full of humour as dark as its title. -- M John Harrison
Kerry Hadley-Pryce was born in Wordsley, in the West Midlands, in 1960. She worked nights in a Wolverhampton petrol station before becoming a secondary school teacher. She wrote The Black Country whilst studying for an MA in Creative Writing at the Manchester Writing School at MMU, for which she gained a distinction and was awarded the Michael Schmidt Prize for outstanding achievement 2013-14. She lives in the Black Country.
General Fields
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- : Salt Publishing
- : Salt Publishing
- : 14 September 2015
- : 198mm X 127mm X 14mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 176
- : 823.92
- : Paperback
- : Kerry Hadley-Pryce