Land of Hope

A pitch-black, magnetic, and unforgettable meditation on the nature of love, evil, and the power of redemption, Land of Hope mixes history and the myths of the English moors to tell a compelling modern English fable of serial killers at the end of the world.

Land of Hope is a speculative novel about survivaland obsession set in a near-future Brontë -esqueEngland. Written in an invented poetic vernacular,expect dark themes of abuse and terror of theunknown.Has the land come to mimic us vile deeds, or have weonly mimicked the land?Daughter. Mother. Glory. Wife of The Devil O’ Th’ Moor. Hope Gleason has many names. The child ofa shepherd raised in the remote moors of NorthernEngland, Hope has always understood the satanicbrutality of the land.But when an ear-splitting, unknowable sound destroysthe nearby village, Hope must embark on a dangerousjourney to survive through the ravaged land with alad, newly orphaned and alone, under her wing. Asthey trek the wilds together to find her husband, herviolent past chases her at every turn and long-buriedmemories begin to resurface.A pitch-black, magnetic, and unforgettable meditationon the nature of love, evil, and the power ofredemption, Land of Hope mixes history and the mythsof the English moors to tell a compelling modernEnglish fable of serial killers at the end of the world, byway of the apocalyptic hinterland of The Road, in thestyle of Everything Under or Elmet.