Swansong is the real thing, right from the start spiky, strange and contemporary, but always with a dark undertow of myth and folklore tugging at its tellingthis is a brilliant novel by a writer and musician of frankly alarming talent. Robert MacfarlaneIn this stunningly assured, immersive and vividly atmospheric first novel from the celebrated musician, a young woman comes facetoface with the volatile, haunted wilderness of the Scottish Highlands. Polly Vaughan is trying to escape the ravaging guilt of a disturbing incident in London by heading north to the Scottish Highlands. As soon as she arrives, this spirited, funny, alert young woman goes looking for drink, drugs and sex finding them all quickly, and unsatisfactorily, with the barman in the only pub. She also finds a fresh kind of fear, alone in this eerie, mythdrenched landscape. Increasingly prone to visions or visitations floating white shapes in the waters of the loch or in the woods she is terrified and fascinated by a man she came across in the forest on her first evening, apparently tearing apart a bird. Who is this strange loner? And what is his sinister secret?Kerry Andrew is a fresh new voice in British fiction one that comes from a deep understanding of the folk songs, mythologies and oral traditions of these islands. Her powerful metaphoric language gives Swansong a charged, hallucinatory quality that is unique, uncanny and deeply disquieting.

Binding: Paperback;352 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: FA; Weight: 404 g; Dimensions: 131 x 197 x 32

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