Crow Court
by
Andy Charman
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1783529105
ISBN-13
9781783529100
Publisher
Boundless Publishing Group Ltd
Imprint
Unbound
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 21st, 2021
Print length
336 Pages
Weight
450 grams
Dimensions
14.40 x 22.30 x 3.50 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Historical fiction
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Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2021, this searingly inventive novel conjures a kaleidoscope of individual lives that all touch a central mystery: the suicide of a choirboy in rural Victorian Dorset
LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2021
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGERS HISTORICAL AWARD 2022
Spring, 1840. In the Dorset market town of Wimborne Minster, a young choirboy drowns himself. Soon after, the choirmaster—a belligerent man with a vicious reputation—is found murdered, in a discovery tainted as much by relief as it is by suspicion. The gaze of the magistrates falls on four local men, whose decisions will reverberate through the community for years to come.
So begins the chronicle of Crow Court, unravelling over fourteen delicately interwoven episodes, the town of Wimborne their backdrop: a young gentleman and his groom run off to join the army; a sleepwalking cordwainer wakes on his wife’s grave; desperate farmhands emigrate. We meet the composer with writer’s block; the smuggler; a troupe of actors down from London; and old Art Pugh, whose impoverished life has made him hard to amuse.
Meanwhile, justice waits…
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