Green Man Running

Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 296. Red printed wraps.

A week in the life of an increasingly impoverished freelance copy editor, who is left to juggle a furious ex-wife, the care of his two young sons and his live-in lover. Author's previous novel The Arizona Game was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award. Widely anthologized herself, Hammick has edited the anthology, The Virago Book of Love and Loss (1992), which includes a number of influences and affinities – Elizabeth Bowen, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Elizabeth Taylor, and Alice Munro.

"With its tautly sustained plot and uncluttered prose, Green Man Running comes close to being a perfectly crafted novel." –Justine Ettler, The Observer