Author:Kitty Aldridge
In July 1934, Walter Brown went alone to the woodland pond. He saw his girl swimming there. He watched her floating and saw how white her skin was in the green water, her belly, her breasts, her pond-tangled hair. Then she turned over like an otter and dived down. She did not come up again. In July 1969, Sean Matthews finds himself in the very same woodland, where he witnesses an event he later cannot bear to remember. Two boys, growing up in the same village thirty-five years apart, have each seen something they shouldn't.
Hailed by Salman Rushie on the publication of her first novel, Pop, Cryers Hill confirms Kitty Aldridge as a writer of immense talent, possessing the rare gift of enabling us to see the world anew.
A beautifully written, profoundly moving, observantly funny, deeply English novel by one of the most talented prose writers I have read in years
—— Carol Ann Duffy , Daily TelegraphMercurial, deft and wondrous in its sentences and uncanny descriptions...A considerable achievement by a daring writer who's come fully into her own
—— Richard FordKitty Aldridge's language captures the casual brutality of childhood like a butterfly in a net
—— Independent[An] excellent pastoral novel
—— Laura Macauley , Time OutAldridge herself loads the novel with verbal twists and turns that leave its texture as ridged, layered and undulating as the Chilterns themselves
—— Boyd Tonkin , Independent[The] carefully observed, spirited portraits form much of the considerable charm of this powerful, slow-burning second novel
—— Sunday TelegraphUtterly riveting, brilliant
—— CloserA funny, easy-going, heart-warming read
—— WomanTouching and funny
—— CloserA real talent ... Sinéad Moriarty has a gift at unwrapping a good, plausible tale and creating likeable characters that you care about
—— IRISH INDEPENDENTA good story, flourishing characters, and the most persuasive narrative voice
—— GuardianA classic tale of the triumph of youthful naivety over middle-aged cynicism
—— Good Book GuideClassic coming of age novel
—— Oxford Times
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