num_pages: 256
description: An atmospheric and unsettling story of the depths of grief found in an ancient farm in northern England soon to be a major motion picture starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark.The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son Ewan has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre their house by the moors was to be full of life but is now a haunted place. Convinced Ewan still lives there in some form Juliette seeks the help of the Beacons a seemingly benevolent group of occultists. Richard to try and keep the boy out of his mind has turned his attention to the field opposite the house where he patiently digs the barren dirt in search of a legendary oak tree. But as they delve further into their grief both uncover more than they set out to.Starve Acre is a devastating new novel by the author of the prize-winning bestseller The Loney. It is a novel about the way in which grief splits the world in two and how in searching for hope we can so easily unearth horror.
language: English
title: Starve Acre
publisher: John Murray