Old God'S Time

<p><b>**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**<br></b><b>TWICE WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR</b><br><br><b>'Wonderfully alive. . . an unforgettable novel from one of our finest writers.' </b>DOUGLAS STUART <b><br>'His work reminds us how much we need these rare gifts of the natural storyteller.' </b>TESSA HADLEY<br><b>'Shocking, stunning and extraordinarily brave. Barry has once again written a character for the ages.' </b>LIZ NUGENT<br><br><i>'Have you ever been the custodian of a story no one else believed?'</i><br><i>'Oh yes,' he said.</i><br><i>'You have?'</i><br><i>'Yes,' he said.</i><br><i>'Then I can tell you.'</i><br><br>Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a nervous young mother who has moved in next door. Occasionally, fond memories return, of his family, his beloved wife June and their two children.<br><br>But when two former colleagues turn up at his door with questions about a decades-old case, one which Tom never quite came to terms with, he finds himself pulled into the darkest currents of his past.<br><br><b>A beautiful, haunting novel, in which nothing is quite as it seems, <i>Old God's Time</i> is about what we live through, what we live with, and what may survive of us.</b></p>