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The first narrative starts with jake whyte, currently living on an unnamed british island, finding a second of her sheep dead and mutilated, and wondering whether foxes, some other wildlife or the local teens. She studied creative writing at bath spa and goldsmiths university. Jake whyte is living on her own in an old farmhouse on a craggy british island, a place of ceaseless rain and battering wind. From one of granta s best young british novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful new novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past.
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