Sanctuary
  • Published: 15 August 2015
  • ISBN: 9781784160333
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $39.99

Sanctuary

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20 Nov 2014
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15 Aug 2015
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A lacerating and moving fictionalised portrait of self-destruction - unlike anything hitherto written about the Brontes

Haworth, West Yorkshire, 1848.

Branwell Brontë - unexhibited artist, unacknowledged writer, sacked railwayman, disgraced tutor and spurned lover - finds himself unhappily back in Haworth Parsonage, to face the disappointment of his father and his three sisters, the scale of whose own pseudonymous successes is only just becoming apparent.

With his health failing rapidly, his aspirations abandoned and his once loyal circle of friends shrinking fast, Branwell resorts to a world of secrets, conspiracies and endlessly imagined betrayals. But his spiral of self-destruction only accelerates the sense of his destiny to be a bystander looking across at greatness, and the madness which that realisation will bring…
  • Published: 15 August 2015
  • ISBN: 9781784160333
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the author

Robert Edric

Robert Edric was born in 1956. His novels include Winter Garden (James Tait Black Prize winner 1986), A New Ice Age (runner-up for the Guardian Fiction Prize 1986), The Book of the Heathen (winner of the WH Smith LIterary Award 2000), Peacetime (longlisted for the Booker Prize 2002), Gathering the Water (longlisted for the Booker Prize 2006) and In Zodiac Light (shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Prize 2010). His most recent novel is Sanctuary. He lives in Yorkshire.

Also by Robert Edric

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The Monster's Lament
The Devil's Beat
The London Satyr
Salvage
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Praise for Sanctuary

A wonderfully edgy piece of wartime noir

D.J. Taylor, Independent

Macabre twists keep the pages turning

James Urquhart, Financial Times

A masterly, highly evocative, multi-layered tale

Mail on Sunday (Eire)

Fabulously atmospheric

Bookseller

Edric's world, though often unsavoury, is also curiously compelling. Lured into its shady precincts, you're unlikely to want to leave.

David Grylls, Sunday Times

A darkly disturbing novel

Hull Daily Mail
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