![]() The story is driven by the metallic hollowness of fear and the threat of blood and violence. ![]() The body of a youth who died circa 41 BC in Windeby, Germany and was found in a bog Over one week during the height of summer, the group is tasked with recreating a neolithic hunter-gatherer community replete with old scratchy tunics, rudimentary hunting of small animals and foraging for edible weeds close to the shores of an all-consuming bog. Where Bill ( a moody and aggressive bus driver/amateur historian) along with his long-suffering wife and 17 year old daughter are joined by Professor Slade (a posh out-of-touch gentleman) along with his acolyte students who are similarly priveleged. Next we are ripped out of the past and nearer to the present – sometime in the 1980’s in rural Northumberland. Ghost Wall opens with an ancient hair-raising scene, of a young woman being ritually cast into the depths of a bog by her tribal community. ![]() Best enjoyed during the witching hours of 11pm and 3 am. The novel’s short 160 pages are absolutely electrifying and seem far bigger. A book about experimental archaeology and family violence that’s brimming with glorious dread and that closes in around you like a vice. ![]()
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