Greater Sins

<p><b>''A striking debut, filled with folkloric mystery and yearning. Read it, then read it again'' Amy Twigg, author of <i>Spoilt Creatures</i><br><br>''A muddy, pastoral fable written with an equal measure of beauty and morbidity. Completely enthralling.'' Lucy Rose, author of <i>The Lamb</i><br><br>''An extraordinary sense of place and time, written by an exciting new voice'' Radio Times (Best Books 2025)</b><br><br><br><i>Who will cast the first stone?</i><br>1915, the Cabrach, Aberdeenshire. An isolated Scottish community is disturbed by a strange discovery: a body in a peat bog, perfectly preserved. Two people haul the body from the ground: Lizzie, the wife of a wealthy local landowner, and Johnny, a nomadic singer and farm hand. At hearthside and inn, people whisper: what have we unearthed?</p><p>One unveiling brings others. For Lizzie, tenacious but trapped, the discovery reveals unanswered questions about her past while for Johnny, it threatens to uncover a history he’s trying to outrun.<br>As their stories entwine, a series of unsettling events befalls the isolated community: ruinous weather, a damaged soldier, strange occurrences that cannot be explained. Against the echoes of distant war, and with the boundaries blurring between right and wrong, everyone is looking for someone to blame…<br></p>