- Published: 24 October 2013
- ISBN: 9781448190232
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 144
Black Sheep
- Published: 24 October 2013
- ISBN: 9781448190232
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 144
Hill's beautiful, soulful descriptions of pit village life make this every bit as gripping as her longer spine-chilling stories
Sunday Mirror
In this taught, tense story, written with that unsparing economy which is such a feature of Hill's recent fiction, everyone longs to escape... Ted is thoughtful, compassionate, loving and misguidedly chivalrous... The sparseness of Hill's style provides the perfect medium for exploring his predicament
East Anglian Daily Times
Hill's taut prose exudes a constant darkness... you are left unsettled and haunted by the seeming inevitability of their troubled lives
Stylist
A perfectly judged story of people living hard, narrow lives
Observer
Gripping all the way to its unexpected end
Simon Baker, Spectator
Taut, tense story, written with that unsparing economy which is such a feature of Hill's recent fiction
Matthew Dennison, The Times
The versatile Hill tells a perfectly judged story of people living hard, narrow lives
Observer
So well-written, so deeply imagined, that the reader will find delight even in the encircling gloom. Love may not conquer all, but Art can
Scotsman
[Hill] does what all good writers must set out to do: she made me read until I had the answer
M J Hyland, Guardian
Powerful… Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece
Sunday Mirror
Compulsively readable
Irish Examiner
Hill deploys her not inconsiderable power to weave a haunting story
Daily Mail
Beautifully, even lovingly, told
Scotsman
There is something Hardyesque in the tragic momentum of this story
Guardian
Hill’s sparse style provides the perfect medium for exploring this family’s predicament
Matthew Dennison, The TImes
Hill does a wonderful job of evoking life in this enclosed community
Emma Hagestadt, Independent
A masterpiece of economy and control
Good Book Guide