Country People : 'Full of joy' Mick Herron

'THE BOOK OF THE SUMMER' Mick Herron A GOOD MORNING AMERICA PICK FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NORTH WOODS 'I LOVED it' Naomi Alderman 'LYRICAL and JOYFUL' Sarah Jessica Parker 'This is, simply put, a JOYFUL book - and the deeper you dig, the more joyful it becomes' Guardian 'Very FUNNY . . . a PERFECT SUMMER ESCAPE . . . as tasty and oddly shaped as an organic apple' Financial Times 'Mason deftly delivers larks aplenty, POIGNANCY, gentle satire and some top-tier farce. Be warned that the latter may cause you to spontaneously erupt with mirth in public places. This book DISPELS GLOOM: go for it' Irish Times 'There's genuine ENCHANTMENT in this earthy tale of city folk transplanted to rural New England . . . It's a WARM and delightfully whimsy free take on fables and family' Mail on Sunday 'A CHARMING book about ambition, marriage and country living' Sunday Times Style 'VIRTUOSIC' R4 Front Row 'One of the FUNNIEST books I've read in a very long time' Xand van Tulleken 'Told with WARMTH and WIT, Mason's prose shimmers in this immersive ode to stories, to the land, and its people' Lucy Steeds, author of The Artist 'A book to make the world feel a little LIGHTER, a little warmer' Ron Charles Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he's become a disappointment to his family. So when his wife Kate accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the far away forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life. But Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, who possesses, in Kate's, words, 'a great capacity to fall in with anyone, anywhere'. Soon he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as those of any of his folktales - from a ghostly tree surgeon, to a scythe-mad biochemist, a Shakespearean temptress, and a photographer of snowflakes - until at last he stumbles upon a bizarre local legend, which, he begins to suspect, might not be a legend at all. A FAMILY'S NEW BEGINNING. THE LOCAL'S OLDEST LEGEND. Praise for Daniel Mason 'A virtuoso' Mail on Sunday 'Has the born storyteller's gift' Daily Mail 'Genius' Washington Post 'Brave and original' Guardian 'Never fails to surprise and delight' Sunday Times 'Teases out the joy and meaning in the sometimes small lives of his characters' The Times 'Shows us what is possible when a writer lets his hair down' Financial Times