Featherstone: an attractive, small rural town serving outlaying estates. Bank post office, school . . .
At first glance, Kirsty Gunn's country town is like any other - a closely connected community bound by habit and familiarity. Yet as we're invited to spend the weekend at Featherstone we come to see something intense and intimate which goes deep into the lives of the people who live here and which lays bare their hearts . . .
'Featherstone' is a novel about memory and need, forgetting and faith, disappointment and desire - but above all it reveals the ways in which we deceive and believe in one another, in how we love. It tells a timeless story with freshness and originality, and with an ending that is nothing less than superb.
