Black Sheep
  • Published: 3 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9780099539568
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $29.99

Black Sheep

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24 Oct 2013
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3 Nov 2014
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A searing family story from one of our most beloved writers

‘Powerful… Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece’ Sunday Mirror

Brother and sister, Ted and Rose Howker, grew up in Mount of Zeal, a mining village blackened by coal. They know nothing of the outside world, though both of them yearn for escape. For Rose this comes in the form of love, while Ted seizes the chance of a job away from the pit. But neither can truly break free and their decisions bring with them brutal consequences…

‘Gripping all the way to its unexpected end’ Spectator
  • Published: 3 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9780099539568
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Susan Hill

Susan Hill has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Honours. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I’m the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and A Kind Man. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story The Woman in Black has been running in London’s West End since 1988. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.

www.susanhill.org.uk

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Also by Susan Hill

The Benefit of Hindsight
A Change of Circumstance
The Comforts of Home
The Man in the Picture
A Question of Identity
The Woman in Black
A Kind Man
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