Beast

Book whose only real character is Edward Buckmaster – who we learn left his wife and newly born daughter to move to the Moors in an attempt to find himself and escape modern conformity. The book is written in four sections – which cease and begin abruptly with narrative missing and in which the Engl......more

"Come to a place like this, though, and you can still hear it sing. I can tell you that from experience. Come to a place like this, far away from the estates and the ring roads and the car parks and the black fields of beer and the screen-dumb people pacing out the slow suicide of the West around th......more

This was a really strange read but I came away completely enraptured by the story. Our main character is a man named Edward who we learn is living on a west-country moor, completely alone. We are not really told why Edward is on the moor or what has happened prior to him living there but you definite......more