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On the margins

What do you think of when somebody mentions England’s countryside? Do you picture nice eccentric people in the Yorkshire Dales, as seen, say, in the TV series In his debut novel, Scott Preston presents a very different part of England. Cumbria born and raised, Preston depicts it as a land where it’s either raining or foggy, where sheep farmers have to deal with sparse grazing grounds and bogs,

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