We’re still shaking two years after reading The Loney – Andrew Michael Hurley’s truly terrifying debut. His second novel, Devil’s Day, promises to be just as dark. Again he’s exploring the spare landscape of the northwest. Very little changes in the Endlands. Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the farm where he grew up to help gather the sheep down from the moors for the winter. Each year, his grandfather, the Gaffer, would redraw the boundary lines of the village, with pen and paper, but also through the remembrance of tales and timeless communal rituals, which keep the sheep safe from the Devil. But this year, the Gaffer has died and John's new wife, Katherine, accompanies him for the first time. As the farmers of the Endlands bury the Gaffer, and prepare to gather the sheep, they begin to wonder whether they've let the Devil in after all . . . Listen to our Literary Salon world exclusive preview with Andrew Michael Hurley, as he reads the first two chapters of Devil's Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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