The Harvest

First edition thus. 12mo. Pp. [viii], 235, [12 (publisher's adverts)]. Pictorial card wraps. Originally published as a paperback original in 1999, this is the first regular edition. Signed by Author to title-page. Light age toning to text block edges, else Fine.

A debut novel about adolescence and first love, English nature and the profound changes affecting the rural landscape. With no job and no prospects, young country-boy Lewis Pike is casually seduced by a married woman. When she ends the relationship, his fragile world disintegrates. "This is certainly a debut with a difference – a novel so fresh and authentic that it deserves to take its place alongside V.S. Naipaul's Enigma of Arrival and Tim Pears' In the Place of Fallen Leaves in the canon of contemporary fiction that elegises so movingly the English countryside." –The Times