The Loney

If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune where Hanny and I went every Easter time with Mummer, Farther, Mr and Mrs Belderboss and Father Wilfred, the parish priest.It was impossible to truly know the place It changed with each influx and retreat, and the neap tides would reveal the skeletons of those who thought they could escape its insidious currents No one ever went near the water No one apart from us, that is.I suppose I always knew that what happened there wouldn t stay hidden for ever, no matter how much I wanted it to No matter how hard I tried to forget. New Download [ The Loney ] Author [ Andrew Michael Hurley ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This was a bit of an odd one Maybe my expectations were too high after all the praise I ve heard about it, but I didn t find myself connecting with this in the same way that others have Too much was left unexplained, meaning by the half way mark I was beginning to lose my patience, and I really struggled to see where the story was going The ending itself left me mystified I didn t realise going into this that there would be so much on religion, as it follows a devoutly I would say fanatical This was a bit of an odd one Maybe my expectations were too high after all the praise I ve heard about it, but I didn t find myself connecting with this in the same way that others have Too much was left unexplained, meaning by the half way mark I was beginning to lose my patience, and I really struggled to see where the story was going The ending itself left me mystified I didn t realise going into this that there would be so much on religion, as it follows a devoutly I would say fanaticall...This shining star of a book has been so thoroughly praised I feel like a heretic in raising my lonely voice in disagreement Let me start, though, with what I enjoyed about The Loney Firstly, Andrew Hurley s prose is lucid and visual, evocative of the scenes he is describing to the extent that I felt unusually present in the narrative His characters are thoroughly well drawn and that s no easy accomplishment in a multi character novel like this He also manages to engender, from the beginnin This shining star of a book h...Well deserved Costa First Novel Winner 2015 There s a lot that could have gone wrong in this book Every gothic horror motif you can think of forms part of the story, including moors crumbling old house dark and dank weather broken down vehicles woods voracious nature priests animal mutilation witches laughing rooks etc etc It is fuelled by myth and susperstition The Loney is personified, a character itself, full of malevolent will Death lives there natural or unnatural, it has become u Well deserved Costa First Novel...It begins with the discovery of a child s body Smith is the narrator of The Loney He is looking back on events from his childhood and they are presented with all the innocence of the time and non of the hindsight of the adult Drenched in atmosphere and relentlessly bleak, the Loney is an isolated, ominous and foreboding part of the northern coast where the incessant rain never stops The book draws on some of the best in gothic literature in its storytelling Smith who looks after his mute an It begins with the discovery of a child s body Smith is the narrator of The Loney He is looking back on events from his childhood and they are presented with all the innocence of the time and non of the hindsight of the adult Drenched in atmosphere and relentlessly bleak, the Loney is an isolated, ominous and foreboding part of the northern coast where the incessant rain never stops The book draws on some of the best in gothic literature in its storytelling Smith who looks after his mute and numerously learning disabled brother, Andrew, are part of a Catholic pilgrimage They are accompanied by their parents, of whom Mummers looms particularly large, a newly appointed priest, Father Bernard, and others Mummers is convinced that Andrew will be cured The conviction in faith and ritual that underlies the tale and where it falls short is what drives the book The group are staying at the Moorings, owned by a taxidermist, which has its ...Astonishing literary fiction with a gothic dark undertone that had me alert from beginning to end I read this in hours, unable to put it down and it s a powerfully written novel that doesn t need a fast pace or out of this world twists or in your face horror to get the story across to you Mesmerising and disturbing.The Loney is a bleak place off the coast of Lancashire, England A place steeped in history, religious belief and dark undercurrents A pilgrimage is made back to this mournful plac Astonishing literary fiction with a gothic dark undertone that had me alert from beginning to end I read this in hours, unable to put it down and it s a powerfully written novel that doesn t need a fast pace or out of this world twists or in your face horror to get the story across to you Mesmerising and disturbing.The Loney is a bleak place off the coast of Lancashire, England A place steeped in history, religious belief and dark undercurrents A pilgrimage is made back to t...I m always wary towards every ideology people try to force on me No matter what it may concern Religious beliefs, political views, approach to abortion laws, capital punishment, to what I should read, listen to, watch People have brains in order to use them, I guess I don t need preaching to be able to distinguish between good and evil, I don t want my taxes being spent on populist actions of politicians, I don t want to be threaten with every possible plague on the earth and hell fire after I m always wary towards every ideology people try to force on me No matter what it may concern Religious beliefs, political views, approach to abortion laws, capital punishment, to what I should read, listen to, watch People have brains in order to use them, I guess I don t need preaching to be able t...The Loney has me A long, malevolent spit of sand reaching out into the cold Irish sea, the Loney also holds ancient dead and plenty of secrets in its depths Beautifully written, this novel entirely deserves all the awards its been crowned with The dark, gothic story weaves together pagan folklore and fervent Catholicism into a mourning shroud here The tale features two young brothers from London, one an altar boy and his elder who is mute and cognitively disabled For years, their devout par The Loney has me A long, malevolent spit of sand reaching out into the cold Irish sea, the Loney also holds ancient dead and plenty of secrets in its depths Beautifully written, this novel entirely deserves all the awards its been crowned with The dark, gothic story weaves together pagan folklore and fervent Catholicism into a mourning shroud here The tale features two young brothers from London, one an altar boy and his elder who is mute and cognitively disabled For years, their devout parents and their parish priest have taken the boys to a windswept retreat to celebrate Easter week, butimportantly to visit a shrine where healing waters are hoped to cure the boy who cannot speakIt was our week of penitence and prayer in which we would make our confessions, visit Saint Anne s shrine, and look for God in the emerging springtime, that, when it came, was hardly a spring at all nothing so vibrant and effusive It ...Its walls had never contained a family No one had ever laughed there A group of religious pilgrims embark to the Loney, an isolated and stormy coastline located a few hours away from London in England, with the intention of visiting a shrine and curing Hanny, a mute teenage boy who suffers from severe learning disabilities.I ve been dreading writing this review simply because I don t know what to say It s a strange book, if someone asked me to give them a rundown of the plot it really wouldn Its walls had never contained a family No one had ever laughed there A group of religious pilgrims embark to the Loney, an isolated and stormy coastline located a few hours away from London in England, with the intention of visiting a shrine and curing Hanny, a mute teenage boy who suffers from severe learning disabilities.I ve been dreading writing this review simply because I don t know what to say It s a strange book, if someone asked me to give them a rundown of the plot it really wouldn t take very long and I m not even sure how I d go about explaining it So, as I ve described in the brief synopsis, a deeply religious family embark on a pilgrimage to the L...Review originally published at Learn This Phrase.Was ever a booksuited to a grey and drizzly Bank Holiday weekend Which it was, when I read it Steeped in religious symbolism and quintessentially British bleakness, The Loney is an odd, dreary sort of horror story the tale of two boys, our nameless narrator and his mute brother, Andrew, known as Hanny The Loney is a place a desolate stretch of northern coast, and one of a number of deliberately evocative place names in this story, a Review originally published at Learn This Phrase.Was ever a booksuited to a grey and drizzly Bank Holiday weekend Which it was, when I read it Steeped in religious symbolism and quintessentially British bleakness, The Loney is an odd, dreary sort of horror story the tale of two boys, our nameless narrator and his mute brother, Andrew, known as Hanny The Loney is a place a desolate stretch of northern coast, and one of a number of deliberately evocative place names in this story, along with the village of Coldbarrow and the houses Thessaly and Moorings Day afte...I struggled with this story I was never quite sure where it was going, or why it was going there I felt I should have beenon edge than I was, andshocked than I actually felt It was dark, but not disturbing enough to really shock me, and it tiptoed around the edges of what was...

• English
• 08 May 2018
Andrew Michael Hurley
• Hardcover
• 368 pages
• 1473619823
• Andrew Michael Hurley
• The Loney