Description

When the farmer wakes at dawn, he can already feel the heat of the day rising and the silence from his wife hanging heavy in the air. As he sets out across his parched fields to find a missing cow, his mind starts to turn over the dreams he harbours, the cares he and his wife both carry alone, and the uneasy sense that something is about to change. Written with clarity and depth, this is a powerful novel about the fragility of life and the small, unseen moments upon which fate twists.

Publisher Review

The Long Dry is undoubtedly an impressive debut -- Keith Hopper * TLS * Lovely, poignant [and] resonant -- Sarah Waters From first to last, through spare style, human empathy, and wonderfully observed detail, Jones attains a pitch of emotional involvement that is mesmerising. The effect is beautiful -- Tim Pears, author * In the Place of Fallen Leaves * A truly wonderful book. Jones has a Faulknerian feel for landscape and his sentences carry you forward on their own peculiar beauty. Surely one of the best debut novels of recent years -- Jonathan Lee, author * Who is Mr Satoshi? * A paean to the corruptibility of the flesh... characterised by moments of startling imagery and stirringly intense lyrical beauty. A wee, wonderful book -- Niall Griffiths A convincing glimpse of life in all its beauty and sadness * Big Issue * Bold and punctuated with some scintillating imagery, this is a near perfect debut * Western Mail * Powerful... highly recommended * Library Journal *