God's Own Country

by Ross Raisin

Recently expelled from school, Sam Marsdyke spends his days working the sheep on his father's farm and his nights up on the bleak Yorkshire moors, watching the steady invasion of daft ramblers and well-heeled 'towns', who are feverishly buying up the houses left empty by bankrupt farmers.
Then, one day, the fifteen year-old daughter of one of the smart new families catches his eye. Attracted by his gruff, sardonic wit and bruising turn of phrase, she strikes up an unlikely, touching friendship with him - one that will unhinge Sam's obsessive imagination and eventually lead to his macabre undoing.

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Ross Raisin was born in Yorkshire in 1979, near Bradford and Ilkley. He studied English at King’s College in London and worked for a time as co-manager of a wine bar. He studied for an MA in Creative Writing at Goldsmith’s University in London before his debut novel, God's Own Country, was bought in a hotly-contested auction by Viking Penguin. It was published to great critical acclaim in 2008 and Ross was shortlisted for 8 separate awards for the book, winning the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2009. He lives in London.