{"product_id":"9781472160034-in-old-hesket-woods","title":"Hesket: A Norfolk Haunting","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eMerging psychological realism and rural terror, \u003ci\u003eHesket: A Norfolk Haunting\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling, uncanny page-turner from debut novelist Sara Bayat.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHesket \u003c\/i\u003eis a moving and accomplished debut which describes how we are shaped by our ecology and haunted by the changes we have wrought on it'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e  \u003ci\u003eSamuel Fisher, author of WIVENHOE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSara Bayat is a stunning new talent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBridget Walsh, author of THE TUMBLING GIRL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHesket is a quiet community of ordinary people, each of whom are contending with their own private trials of everyday life. But the quaint village they call home has a dark history, and the spectre of a centuries-old trauma still lingers there today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the threat of development targets the old woods on the edge of the village, unsettling things begin to occur, and the residents must contend with the past and confront their own demons. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAre these strange events simply the anxieties of a troubled community being brought to the fore, or is there something more uncanny at work?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA grieving parent refuses to believe that death is really the end.\u003cbr\u003eA séance takes an unexpected turn.\u003cbr\u003eAnd something monstrous is said to stalk the river.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHesket: A Norfolk Haunting\u003c\/i\u003e, debut novelist Sara Bayat weaves a tapestry of a small village community in which each character has their own story to tell. Merging an evocative depiction of the East Anglian countryside and the disquiet of everyday life, Bayat draws on the tradition of the English folk tale with eerie undertones reminiscent of Daisy Johnson, Francine Toon and Andrew Michael Hurley. \u003ci\u003eHesket\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a tale of how loss and love can haunt and shape us.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57396565475702,"sku":"9781472160034","price":15.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_40311836_b8f4cffb-3902-4962-a885-a836984fe732.jpg?v=1773315600","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781472160034-in-old-hesket-woods","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}