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Title: Black Sheep
Author: Susan Hill
Narrator: Alison Larkin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-25-14
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
A searing family story from one of our most beloved writers
The village is called Mount of Zeal. It's built in a bowl-like an amphitheater, with the winding gear where the stage would be. The pit lies below. Ted Howker's school is on the edge of Lower Terrace next to the chapel. Upper Terrace - in a thunderous echo of the Bible so loved by Ted's grandfather - is Paradise. Ted, his father, and his brothers live in Middle. In the beginning: a household of men, all of whom work in the pit.
Susan Hill is an exceptional writer at the height of her powers. Every word is precisely right: the descriptions of the village and the pit, the people and the farm are exact and true; the heartbreak is inevitable yet new; and the imagery and imagination take your breath away.
Members Reviews:
Matters of light and darkness
âBlack Sheepâ is about honour and disgrace in an isolated pre-WW II British coal-mining community. Its overcrowded terraces house miners on changing shifts and their hard-working wives, facing many tasks. No work alternatives for school leavers (14+), early marriage for girls. The novellaâs focus is the Howker family of three miners, daughter Rose and kid brother Ted. Home worked like a machine when Ted was small.
But at 14, Ted decides not to descend into the pit of darkness with his classmates. Instead, he elects an outdoor life of light and open skies with a view of the world below, looking after hundreds of sheep. He was not the first to break with tradition: his silent, oldest brother Arthur gave up mining after an injury and one day disappeared foreverâ
Have read, enjoyed and reviewed five Susan Hill novellas and always felt her work had been rushed into print. But âBlack Sheepâ is a perfectly paced and a truly searing family drama. It contains notable characters like work-shy, God-fearing grandpa Reuben, struggling mother Evie, nasty son-in-law Charlie, and of course, lovely Rose and Ted himself. Sad story, sad ending.
Perfect for reading clubs to discuss the family's troubles or coal miners and their culture, then and now, or todayâs relevance of capital punishment and the Old Testament.
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Title: Black Sheep
Author: Susan Hill
Narrator: Alison Larkin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-25-14
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
A searing family story from one of our most beloved writers
The village is called Mount of Zeal. It's built in a bowl-like an amphitheater, with the winding gear where the stage would be. The pit lies below. Ted Howker's school is on the edge of Lower Terrace next to the chapel. Upper Terrace - in a thunderous echo of the Bible so loved by Ted's grandfather - is Paradise. Ted, his father, and his brothers live in Middle. In the beginning: a household of men, all of whom work in the pit.
Susan Hill is an exceptional writer at the height of her powers. Every word is precisely right: the descriptions of the village and the pit, the people and the farm are exact and true; the heartbreak is inevitable yet new; and the imagery and imagination take your breath away.
Members Reviews:
Matters of light and darkness
âBlack Sheepâ is about honour and disgrace in an isolated pre-WW II British coal-mining community. Its overcrowded terraces house miners on changing shifts and their hard-working wives, facing many tasks. No work alternatives for school leavers (14+), early marriage for girls. The novellaâs focus is the Howker family of three miners, daughter Rose and kid brother Ted. Home worked like a machine when Ted was small.
But at 14, Ted decides not to descend into the pit of darkness with his classmates. Instead, he elects an outdoor life of light and open skies with a view of the world below, looking after hundreds of sheep. He was not the first to break with tradition: his silent, oldest brother Arthur gave up mining after an injury and one day disappeared foreverâ
Have read, enjoyed and reviewed five Susan Hill novellas and always felt her work had been rushed into print. But âBlack Sheepâ is a perfectly paced and a truly searing family drama. It contains notable characters like work-shy, God-fearing grandpa Reuben, struggling mother Evie, nasty son-in-law Charlie, and of course, lovely Rose and Ted himself. Sad story, sad ending.
Perfect for reading clubs to discuss the family's troubles or coal miners and their culture, then and now, or todayâs relevance of capital punishment and the Old Testament.