Marraton
by Sam Smith
Description
‘Marra’ in the still active dialect of West Cumbrian coastal towns means ‘mate’ or ‘pal’. Howard Dawson is a Police Community Support Officer in Marraton. Divorced, sole carer of his epileptic father, Howard’s in and out-of-uniform life is drift, losing himself in reveries - on the true purpose of the offshore turbines, what goes on in a chapel with no posters, the noises coming from strange allotment beasts.... And then dead cats stuffed with snail shells start getting left in gardens, there’s a spate of robberies with odd things taken - a pub’s legendary flugelhorn, a used kettle .… Howard also has to deliver talks to schoolchildren on graffiti and vandalism, and to prevent fairground mayhem… he even ends up rescuing a girl from a mudslide. Come the end of the book the catkiller is found, if not apprehended, and some of the stolen property is returned to its owners.
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“I know I will be reading Sam Smith all my life. … Here is a British writer who is actually saying something … Sam Smith is a Briton mapping the Wasteland, both of inner space and of the forlorn council estates…”
STEVE OWEN
“…Smith does it tough, makes no concessions, builds himself no emotional hidey-holes, and faces his monsters all the way…”
PATRICIA PRIME
Bibliographic Information
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781909357266
- Publication Country or regionUK
- FormatPaperback
- Pages196
- ReadershipGeneral adult
- Publish StatusPublished
- Page size129x198
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