The Borrowed Hills

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Book Descriptions

    "Preston?s debut arrives like a punch to the gut . . . a Wild West?type tale of rustling and villainy, blood and belonging, transposed to the bleakly beautiful fells and sheep flocks of northern England. . . . This is an elemental tale shaded in tones of heroism, machismo, moral intensity, and mythmaking. It?s also a love song to the landscape . . . Gritty, gripping, and fearlessly committed."?Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Viscerally vivid . . . a sucker-punch of a novel, edged with knife-sharp black humour and shot through with moments of startling beauty . . . half Tarantino and half pitch-black northern realism" ?Guardian A stunning debut novel set in the rugged, rural landscape of northwest England where two sheep farmers lose their flocks and decide to reverse their fortunes by stealing sheep from a rich farm in the south?for fans of Annie Proulx and Cormac McCarthy.In early 2001, a lethal disease breaks out on the hill farms of northern England, emptying the valleys of

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