Grief Is The Thing With Feathers - Max Porter City Building Ben Mears has returned to

Ben Mears has returned to the Lot to write a novel and exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood - since the event he witnessed at the Marsten House

Yet – reasoned the detective – like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters

It is a rare picture which stuns

from Christian Ward (Invisible Kingdom

Fitz is determined to reach the city and take vengeance on the Four

Grief Is The Thing With Feathers - Max Porter City Building Ben Mears has returned toIn a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him. In a London flat, two young boys face the