The Loney

An eerie, suspenseful, gothic debut novel. Winner of the Costa First Novel Award

“An amazing piece of fiction.”—Stephen King

When Smith was a boy, he and his family went on an Easter pilgrimage with their local parish to the Loney, a bleak stretch of the English coastline, to visit an ancient shrine in search of healing for Smith’s disabled brother. But the locals were none too pleased to welcome them, and the two brothers soon became entangled in a troubling morass of dangerous rituals.

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