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THE DEAD
OF WINTER
The first gales of winter leave Alasdair Mér’s
lobster creels unscathed, but when his good
fortune is mentioned one evening in the
local bar, a storm of another kind is set off.
It soon breaks relentlessly upon him. For
the creels of An Sionnach (‘The Fox’), a
newcomer to this island of the Inner
Hebrides, have not been spared and An
Sionnach is a complex, deeply jealous man.
Upon the gentle and unsuspecting Alasdair
he directs his vengefulness in a series of
astonishing provocations. Alasdair’s anger
is all the fiercer for being slowly charged.
Finally he sets out to hunt An Sionnach
down.
Dominic Cooper’s first novel is remarkable
for the way it evokes the special character of
a part of Scotland, a community on the
point of disintegration for loss of population.
The author’s gifts as a story-teller are also
great. The Dead of Winter is a gripping and a
touching story.
‘That it’s possible to be completely original
within the confines of formal fiction is
demonstrated with great force by Dominic
Cooper’s outstanding first novel... ’
JEREMY BROOKS, The Sunday Times
‘L would value a chance to write at length
about this book ... it is a hard, intelligent,
passionate novel ... an excitingly ambitious
one.’
©. J. DRIVER, The Guardian
... one of the most powerful first novels I
have read for some time . . . an important
new talent.’
JANICE ELLIOTT, The Sunday Telegraph
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THE
The
DEAD
Mor
OF
WINTER
leave
the lobster
but when
first gales of winter
ereels of Alasdair
unscathed,
his good fortune is mentioned one evening in
the local bar, a storm of another kind is set off.
It soon breaks relentlessly upon him. For the
creels of An Sionnach (‘The Fox’), a new-
comer
to this island
of the Inner Hebrides,
have not been spared and An Sionnach is a
strange, deeply jealous character. Upon the
gentle and unsuspecting Alasdair he directs
his vengefulness in a series of astounding
provocations. Alasdair’s anger is all the
fiercer for being slowly charged. He sets out to
hunt An Sionnach down.

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