TY  - BOOK
AU  - Preston,Scott
TI  - The borrowed hills: a novel 
SN  - 9781668050675
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC
KW  - Sheep ranchers
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Sheep stealing
KW  - Farm life
KW  - Theft
KW  - Adultery
KW  - England, North West
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - Novels
N2  - "A stunning debut novel set in the rugged, rural landscape of northwest England where two sheep farmers lose their flocks and decide to reverse their fortunes by stealing sheep from a rich farm in the south-for fans of Annie Proulx and Cormac McCarthy. In early 2001, a lethal disease breaks out on the hill farms of northern England, emptying the valleys of sheep and filling the skies with smoke as they burn the carcasses. Two neighboring shepherds lose everything and set their sights on a wealthy farm in the south with its flock of prizewinning animals. So begins the dark tale of Steve Elliman and William Herne. As their sheep rustling leads to more and more difficult decisions, the struggles of the land are never far away. Steve's only distraction is his growing fascination with William's enigmatic and independent wife, Helen. When their mountain home comes under the sway of a lawless outsider, Colin Tinley, it is left to Steve to save himself and Helen in a savage conflict that threatens the ancient ways of the Lakeland fells. Told in the hardscrabble voice of a forgotten England, Scott Preston creates an uncompromising vision of farmers lost in brutal devotion to their flocks, the aching love affairs that men and women use to sustain themselves, and the painful consequences of a breathtaking heist gone bad. The Borrowed Hills is a thrilling adventure that reimagines the American Western for Britain's moors and mountains where survival is in the blood"--
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