The Loney

**Winner of the 2015 Costa First Novel Award** If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it The Loney - that strange nowhere place between the Wyre and the Lune... Dull and featureless it may have looked, but The Loney was a dangerous place. *The Loney* is Andrew Michael Hurley’s decidedly unsettling fictional debut, one of those bookseller word-of-mouth novels that gathered early momentum by the sheer merit of its writing.

With Lancashire’s wind-scorched coast as its setting, Hurley fuses faith, superstition and fear into a potent cocktail of family drenched in unsaid secrets and a constant, gnawing doubt that something strange and dangerous is afoot: it surprised none of us here to watch *The Loney* sail on to bag 2016’s Costa Book of the Year. *Please note that this edition is supplied in both black and white cover variants and your copy will be randomly assigned.*