Run to the Western Shore: Surprising, poignant, elemental novel from award-winning author

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'A beautiful love story with an incredible sense of place' - The Times

A powerful novel about destiny, home and surviving in a world in flux

Britain, AD 72.

Quintus, long exiled from his people, has travelled great odysseys in the retinue of a powerful Roman. Though a citizen of nowhere, is a man of reason, fluent in many languages. Olwen, imperious tribal royalty, is rooted in her native land - a volatile warrior, fiercely attached to the natural world.

Given away by her father as part of a peace treaty, Olwen flees during the night, taking Quintus with her. Hunted by an army, the two make their way across the country, living off the land, heading for the western shore...

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'A Celtic odyssey ... Pears is a master at making you see again landscapes that have long vanished ... Pears has an unusual gift for creating characters you want to spend time with' - Guardian

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'Reflective and utterly beguiling' - Mail on Sunday

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'Compact and engrossing ... a narrative of chase and pursuit told in bright, direct modern-sounding prose ... pleasure of a novel' - Anthony Cummins, Daily Mail

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'Tim Pears writes with precision and tenderness about the countryside and the creatures and people who live there ... A beautiful love story with an incredible sense of place' - The Times

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'The events in this book, as in all the others, take place in the Pearzone - a dimension I myself have never experienced but elements of which I long to be able to share. It can be a place of brutality and heartbreak, yet it offers to those who live there at least glimpses of alternative, less irksome ways of negotiating life. Reading Tim Pears always reminds me that we don't have to be ignoble' - Haydn Middleton, author of The Ballad of Syd and Nancy

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Author Bio

Tim Pears is a Lannan Prize-winning author and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His books include In the Place of Fallen Leaves (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award), In A Land of Plenty (made into a ten-part BBC series), Landed (shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, winner of the MJA Open Book Awards), and The West Country Trilogy.