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Sheep
James and Adèle, with their eight year old Sam, move to Wales for the winter, to do up a dilapidated farmhouse, Ty-Gwyneth. They are still reeling from the death by drowning of their daughter, Ruthie: the time in Wales should be a chance for them to recover, regroup, come together as a family.
But James starts to dig up some rather curious bones, Sam has a screaming fit in which he seems to be speaking to a previous occupant of the house, and Adèle's paintings become odd, disturbing, wrong.
A sheep is found, mutilated. Another. Sheep are found lying on the rocks below the cliff, torn open. The destruction of the beasts has begun...
'The best debut novel I have read since The Wasp Factory. Wonderful original writing glittering with savage imagery, the pages breathe the tough, dark texture of a real world, of real inescapable fears, blurring the boundaries between nightmare and reality...' Peter James
I am a novelist living and working in Brighton, UK, in a haunted palace by the sea. I write horror/psychological thrillers as Simon Maginn: Sheep (filmed as The Dark), Virgins and Martyrs, A Sickness of the Soul, Methods of Confinement, Rattus (novella).
By night, I become Simon Nolan, who writes raucous urban comedies: As Good as it Gets, The Vending Machine of Justice, Whitehawk. I play the piano incessantly, and paint in an uncontrolled and, frankly, disgusting way.
‘Nolan is brilliant’ Time Out
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Hi Simon
I’ve already read Whitehawk in paperback and loved it but I thought you should know that your link to Kindle doesn’t work in the UK.
Whitehawk reminded me a bit of The Wicker Man (in a good way), with Sergeant Howie recast as Mel Banff and Kenneth as a kind of Lord Summerisle on a DFS sofa.
Why thank you sir. I hadn’t thought of The Wicker Man, but I see what you mean. I was thinking more of the story about the anthropologist who is systematically lied to about everything by the tribe she is studying. The link works when I try it. I’ll investigate further.