The North Shore - Ben Tufnell - Bog

As eerie, bleak and magical as the Norfolk coast itself. An intriguing narrative of twists and turns, stories and myths, truth and fable. Tufnell has captured and distilled the very nature of nostalgia, transforming it into a gripping piece of work that pulls you in, and won't let you go - Nick Bradley, author of The Cat and the CityThe North Shore conjures the atmosphere of the Norfolk coast with unnerving beauty. This is an unusual and enthralling novel: the strange events of this story have haunted me - Naomi BoothAn enticing, wrack-like tangle of myth, mystery and the power of the sea - Kiran Millwood HargraveBrilliant: singular, unsettling and mutative, combining the mythical and the grotesque with sublime writing and an intense fascination with the natural world - Rosie AndrewsA mysterious and compelling tale. Landscape and memory shift as though colluding in unsettling the past. Myth competes with truth for attention. The land is a medium for holding or expressing powers we cannot hope to understand - Lulu Allison You don't pass through the North Shore on the way to anywhere else: it is the end of the road. The village is like many along that wild coast; inhabited by those who have always lived there, and always would. The residents know nature's tempestuous ways. They batten down the hatches when storms rip through, and clear the debris in the aftermath. But after one particularly ferocious storm, something washes up on the beach that has never appeared before. Something that opens the question of what nature, and the North Shore, are truly capable of. The North Shore speaks of the mysteries that lie between land and water and the ways we use myths and folklore to understand the strangeness of the world.