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Cover art: Chris Shehan
Blurb: “IN ALL THE DIGGING HE'D DONE, RICHARD HAD NEVER ONCE TURNED UP A SINGLE WORM OR SPIDER.
ONLY BONES.
THE WORST THING POSSIBLE HAS HAPPENED.
Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by the moors, was to be full of life but is now a haunted place. Convinced Ewan still lives there in some form, Juliette seeks the help of the Beacons, a seemingly benevolent group of occultists. Richard, to try to keep the boy out of his mind, has turned his attention to the field opposite the house, where he patiently digs the barren dirt in search of a legendary oak tree. But as they delve,further into their grief, both uncover more than they set out to
Starve Acre is a devastating new novel by the author of the prize-winning bestseller The Loney. It is a story about the way in which grief splits the world in two, and how in searching for hope we can so easily unearth horror.”