A novel by Cynan Jones

April 4, 2017 • 5 x 7.75 • 136 Pages • 978-1-56689-465-4

The animal facts of human life—need, love, children, exhaustion, incapacity, death—come alive in one farmer’s long, hot day.

On a long, hot day, Gareth searches for a missing pregnant cow. A dog must be put down, there are ducks to go in the pond, there are children, and there is Kate, his wife, who may be an uncrossable distance from him. Jones’s rural Wales is alive with the necessities of our own animal instincts and most human longing.

About the Author

Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron on the west coast of Wales in 1975. He is the author of five short novels, The Long Dry; Everything I Found on the Beach; Bird, Blood, Snow; The Dig; and Cove. His work has been translated into several languages, and his short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and publications, including Granta.

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