Paperback outing of this widely admired literary gem from the Welsh author of }The Long Dry{, which won the Betty Trask Award in 2007. The narrative is built around the interlocking fates of a badger-baiter and a disconsolate farmer, unfolding in a stark rural setting where man, animal, land and weather are at loggerheads A novel that marks the maturing of a singular British writing talent - and perhaps the most significant writer to come out of Wales in a generation