Elmet

Daniel and his sister Cathy live with their father in a house he has built with his own hands in a small wood in Yorkshire, apart from everyone else. Their father, a huge, taciturn man and a feared bare-knuckle fighter, wants to toughen his children against whatever darkness the world holds; they forage and hunt, and no longer go to the school where they never fitted in. Their close, secluded life comes under threat when a powerful landowner from the area and his two sons take an interest in the land and in the family, and as the men close in, the violence in the father grows.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

United Kingdom

First published

2017

Author's age

29 when first published

ISBN

9781616208424 (Algonquin Books, United States)

9781473676497 (John Murray, United Kingdom)

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