2016 BOOKS OF THE YEAR DÉBUT FICTION 2016


BOOK OF THE YEAR DEBUT FICTION


THE LONEY


ANDREW MICHAEL HURLEY JOHN MURRAY


Two brothers. One mute, the other his lifelong protector. Year after year, their family visits the same sacred shrine on a deso- late strip of coastline known as the Loney, in desperate hope of a cure. In the long hours of waiting, the


boys are left alone. And they cannot resist the causeway revealed with every turn of the treacherous tide, the old house they glimpse at its end . . .


Many years on, Hanny is a grown man no longer in need of his brother’s care. But then the child’s body is found. And the Loney always gives up its secrets, in the end.


The publisher had complete confidence in this book from the beginning”


JOE HADDOW PRODUCER, BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB 08


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