Black Dirt

Nell Leyshon

From Shelf: The 2005 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist

A glorious yet haunting novel about the guilty silences that bind family members together - and sometimes keep them apart.

Frank lies in bed, his dying dreams haunted by memories of one long-ago summer, the sticky heat of night, and the stories his father told about Christ, the red-breasted robin, and kings Arthur and Alfred. But other images also rise to the surface, unbidden and unwanted, and Frank finds himself forced to recall his older sister, Iris, whose existence - and terrible crime - he has spent long years struggling to forget.

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