From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall', this is a dark f
able of lost faith and awakening love amidst the moors. Fetherhoughton is a drab
, dreary town somewhere in a magical, half-real 1950s north England, a preserve
of ignorance and superstition protected against the advance of reason by its imp
enetrable moor-fogs. Father Angwin, the town's cynical priest, has lost his fait
h, and wants nothing more than to be left alone.
