{"product_id":"swansong-kerry-andrew-9781784704926","title":"Swansong","description":"\u003cp\u003eA truly original debut novel from the celebrated musician.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Swansong is the real thing, right from the start- spiky, strange and contemporary, but always with a dark undertow of myth and folklore tugging at its telling...this is a brilliant novel by a writer - and musician - of frankly alarming talent.' Robert Macfarlane\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this stunningly assured, immersive and vividly atmospheric first novel from the celebrated musician, a young woman comes face-to-face with the volatile, haunted wilderness of the Scottish Highlands. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePolly Vaughan is trying to escape the ravaging guilt of a disturbing incident in London by heading north to the Scottish Highlands. As soon as she arrives, this spirited, funny, alert young woman goes looking for drink, drugs and sex - finding them all quickly, and unsatisfactorily, with the barman in the only pub. She also finds a fresh kind of fear, alone in this eerie, myth-drenched landscape. Increasingly prone to visions or visitations - floating white shapes in the waters of the loch or in the woods - she is terrified and fascinated by a man she came across in the forest on her first evening, apparently tearing apart a bird. Who is this strange loner? And what is his sinister secret?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKerry Andrew is a fresh new voice in British fiction; one that comes from a deep understanding of the folk songs, mythologies and oral traditions of these islands. Her powerful metaphoric language gives Swansong a charged, hallucinatory quality that is unique, uncanny and deeply disquieting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kerry Andrew","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43175710851315,"sku":"9781784704926","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781784704926.jpg?v=1662077083","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/swansong-kerry-andrew-9781784704926","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}