Deloume Road

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Description

In the intense August heat, three local kids, Matthew, Andy and Josh, spend their time exploring the woods and secret places of Deloume Road and ignoring the ghostly boy Miles Ford, who’s almost invisible anyway. Soon though, a chance discovery sets off a terrible sequence of events, forever entwining these young lives with that of Gerard Deloume, the town’s long-dead founder…Winner of the Guardian Not-The-Booker Prize and the Greene & Heaton Prize for Best Novel.

Additional information

Weight 0.221 kg
Dimensions 2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

320

Publisher

Year Published

2011-5-5

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099535246

About The Author

Matthew Hooton grew up on Vancouver Island, before moving to England and completing an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, winning the inaugural Greene & Heaton Prize for the Best Novel with Deloume Road. Having worked as an editor in several cities in South Korea, he now lives in Victoria, Canada.

Elegant… delicate meditation on the cyclical nature of history, and the strength of communities

Other text

A novel with real, haunting power

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