Hollow in the Land

Author: Clarke, James

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 1 April 2021 by Profile Books Ltd (Serpents Tail) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 272 pages
129 x 199 x 21 | 226g

Out walking Ada Robinsons dog while his wife drinks herself into a forgetful fug, Harry Maiden discovers an intricate system of caves beneath the wind turbines. Over at the Woolpack one night, Rosco re-encounters friendships he thought hed left behind at the Stubbins paper mill. Mad old Gos leads a mysterious treasure hunt to the Bronze Age burial site at Whitelow Cairn.

This is the Hollow in the Land: a corner of England teeming with mystery and intrigue and filled with real, flesh-and-blood characters, each of them at a different point along lifes journey through childhood hopefulness, faded first love and middle-aged disillusionment. Hollow in the Land uncovers the small everyday mysteries of their lives - and ours.