The black snow
By: Paul Lynch
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781782062042
Subjects: Farmers; Fiction; Resentment; Families; Secrecy
Description: In the spring of 1945, farm-worker Matthew Peoples runs into a burning byre and does not come out alive. The farm's owner, Barnabas Kane, can only look on as his friend dies and all forty-three of his cattle are destroyed in the blaze. Following the disaster, the bull-headed and proudly self-sufficient Barnasbas is forced to reach out to the farming community for assistance. But resentment simmers over Matthew Peoples' death, and Barnabas and his family begin to believe their efforts at recovery are being sabotaged. Barnabas is determined to hold firm. Yet his son Billy struggles under the weight of a terrible secret, and his wife Eskra is fuffocated by the uncertainty surrounding their future. And as Barnabas fights ever harder for what is rightfully his, his loved ones a drawn ever closer to a fate that should never have been theirs.