Villages are full of tales.Some are forgotten while others become a part of local folklore. But
the fortunes of one British village are watched over and irreversibly etched into its history
as an omniscient somewhat crabby presence keeps track of village life. Yes this is a novel
told from the point of view of...a hill. And also lots of village personalities.In the late
sixties a Californian musician blows through Underhill where he writes a set of haunting folk
songs that will earn him a group of obsessive fans and a cult following.Two decades later a
couple of teenagers disturb a body on the local golf course. In 2019 a pair of lodgers
discover a one-eyed rag doll hidden in the walls of their crumbling and neglected home. Tom
Cox's masterful (and sometimes spooky) novel is a psychedelic and enthralling exploration of
village life a book of rivers hills soil stone and swirling time.Funny thought-provoking
and astoundingly clever ... What will I be able to read after Villager? I'll just read it again
I guess. And again. Just cancel all other books.- Adele Nozedar author of The Hedgerow
Handbook
