Kerry Hadley-Pryce | The Black Country

9781784630348

15/09/15

PB

176 pages

Maddie and Harry: she’s an estate agent, he’s a teacher. They’ll say they live in the Black Country. They’ll say how they met Jonathan Cotard, explain how they later argued, had a car accident, thought they’d killed someone. Thought they had. And as they search for a truth, they’ll tell us their secrets, their mistakes. And we’ll judge them. We'll judge Harry's fling with a schoolgirl and Maddie's previous life. We'll judge the nature of love and violence, good and evil. The Black Country. For Maddie and Harry, it’s darker than it should be.

‘Begs to be read in one go, tugging the reader onwards through its intense and strangely intimate world.’ —Alison Moore

‘Obliquely yet menacingly told, increasingly horrific, and full of humour as dark as its title.’ —M John Harrison