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Granta Best Young British Novelist and Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, Shortlisted for NINE literary awards.

‘Ross Raisin’s story of how a disturbed but basically well-intentioned rural youngster turns into a malevolent sociopath is both chilling in its effect and convincing in its execution’ J. M. Coetzee

‘Utterly frightening and electrifying’ Joshua Ferris

‘Astonishing, funny, unsettling … An unforgettable creation [whose] literary forebears include Huckleberry Finn, Holden Caulfield and Alex from A Clockwork Orange’ The Times

‘Remarkable, compelling, very funny and very disturbing . . . like no other character in contemporary fiction’ Sunday Times

In God’s Own Country, one of the most celebrated debut novels of recent years, Ross Raisin tells the story of solitary young farmer, Sam Marsdyke, and his extraordinary battle with the world. Expelled from school and cut off from the town, mistrusted by his parents and avoided by city incomers, Marsdyke is a loner until he meets rebellious new neighbour Josephine. But what begins as a friendship and leads to thoughts of escape across the moors turns to something much, much darker with every step. ‘Powerful, engrossing, extraordinary, sinister, comic. A masterful debut’ Observer

Reviews:

• Media hype is usually a bit of a danger signal for me when it comes to debut novels and Ross Raisin has certainly enjoyed a pretty deafening fanfare for God’s Own Country. But make no mistake: this man is a major British talent and God’s Own Country is destined to become a cult classic to sit alongside The Wasp Factory (at least). The narrative voice is compelling and unsettling: you are in the hands of a deeply disturbed but oddly likeable young farm boy. It’s a battle between town and country, a sort of them versus us fantasy, acted out in Marsdyke’s head. The narrative is wild, earthly, rural, `unlearned’, warm and often very funny. But, be warned, Raisin twists and turns your sympathies through this bleak story until the very end. It will certainly be interesting to see what he produces next.

• I bought this after reading the back cover review on a copy at a B & B we were staying at. The description of life on a farm on the bleak Yorkshire moors is very convincing. Parts of the plot in the young farmer’s relationship with a girl from an incoming family from London is less believable. However, it is an interesting story of someone’s motives being misunderstood resulting in serious consequences for him.