The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son Ewan has died
suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre their house by the moors was to be full of life but
is now a haunted place. Juliette convinced Ewan still lives there in some form seeks the
help of the Beacons a seemingly benevolent group of occultists. Richard to try and keep the
boy out of his mind has turned his attention to the field opposite the house where he
patiently digs the barren dirt in search of a legendary oak tree. Starve Acre is a devastating
new novel by the author of the prize-winning bestseller The Loney. It is a novel about the way
in which grief splits the world in two and how in searching for hope we can so easily unearth
horror.
