Cold Boy's Wood av Carol Birch

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<p><b>Fusing the ghost story with sharp, psychological insight, this is a brilliant and timely novel about loneliness, buried secrets and the havoc they play on the mind from Booker-shortlisted author Carol Birch. </b><br><br><i>Did you hear? Big landslip over by Ercol. Last night. The road into Gully''s closed off. They found a body. Got police tape. All that stuff. They only do that for murder, don''t they? Murder! </i><br><br>A body has been uncovered in a mudslide just outside the village of Andwiston. In the pub they talk of murder, but Dan ¿ sometime mechanic, constant drunk ¿ is finding it hard to sift through his jumbled memories. Watching him from the dark is Lorna, a lost soul living in the woods, haunted by ghosts and a vision from her childhood: a cold boy standing alone in Gallinger''s field.<br><br>Fusing the ghost story with sharp, psychological insight, <i>Cold Boy''s Wood</i> is an arresting, timely novel about loneliness, buried secrets and the havoc they play on the