Out backward

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Sam Marsdyke is a lonely young man, dogged by an incident in his past and forced to work his family farm instead of attending school in his Yorkshire village. He methodically fills his life with daily routines and adheres to strict boundaries that keep him at a remove from the blatherskites - his name for the townspeople - and the wide-eyed ramblers from the cities who are taking over the area with their coffee bars and gourmet shops. When Marskdyke spies Josephine, his new neighbour from London, his carefully constructed protections begin to crumble. He can keep his distance only so long, and what begins as a friendship between a solitary young farmer and a defiant teenage girl descends into frightening, and dangerous, delusion. Debut author Ross Raisin has created a voice that is at once brilliantly comic and darkly terrifying. Out Backward traces a journey not just across the haunting Yorkshire moors but into the mind of an unforgettable character.