Synopsis

Paul, a young academic composing a thesis about the end of the world, and his girlfriend Hazel, a potter, have come to the tiny English village of Alder for the summer. Their idea of a rural retreat gradually sours as the laws of nature begin to break down around them. The village, swollen by an annual rock festival of cataclysmic proportions, prepares to reap a harvest of horror.

A brand-new edition of the critically acclaimed novel.

Release date: March 19, 2013

Publisher: Titan Books

Print pages: 512

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