![]() ![]() ![]() The print of a woman's shoe was found by his side in the snow where he lay dead. ![]() A gripping time-slip novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle WalkerHere John Turner was cast away in a heavy snow storm in the night in or about the year 1755. It is an evocation of the lives and the language of all people who are called to the valley of Thursbitch. Thursbitch is rooted in a verifiable place. John Turner's death in the eighteenth century leaves an emotional charge which, in the twenty-first century, Ian and Sal find affects their relationship, challenging the perceptions they have of themselves and of each other. In this visionary tale, John brings ideas as well as gifts, which have come, from market town to market town, from places as distant as the campfires of the Silk Road. With his train of horses he carried salt and silk, travelling distances incomprehensible to his ancient community. This enigmatic memorial stone, high on the bank of a prehistoric Pennine track in Cheshire, is a mystery that lives on in the hill farms today. Here John Turner was cast away in a heavy snow storm in the night in or about the year 1755. ![]()
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