A dozen accounts, narrated by a dozen different voices, tell the story of Ulverton, a fictional village on the Wessex Downs, through its generations. Based on a bedrock of folktales, myth and oral tradition, the author builds layers of new narrative, often using dialect or the true demotic voice.
Awards
Winner of Winifred Holtby Memorial Award 1993 and Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize 1993.