The best creepy stories take place against the creepy backdrop of the British countryside.
But its also, in the right literary hands, very creepy countryside.
He did the same with the Welsh borders in this book.
Its not a new idea, but old ideas done well can be just as fun.
Of course there are ghosts in the spooky house in the middle of nowhere.
I love that idea.
The book begins with one of the great descriptions of English weather at its worst.
Procreation, flowering, growing and dying back: its all there, along with some very funny moments.
No writer makes me laugh like Fay Weldon does.
Do people need structure?
How do we make it, if its not given to us?
Time stretches out and then snaps back in focus.
This book plays with the idea of whats important to us and how little control we have over nature.
Humans care about such strange things, but its all the same to the land.
Every aspect of her life is a vicious struggle.
How can she become fulfilled?
Is such a thing even possible?
During a fierce storm on a black night, a desperate man arrives at the Hendersons cottage.
Nobody can enter or leave.
The harshness of life on the land, at its mercies, is shown here so well.
Aliya Whiteleys latest novella,The Arrival Of Missives(Unsung Stories) was published on May 9th 2016.
Will it prevent her mastering her own destiny?
