Gutterblood Heart — Alan Thomas

"Gutterblodd Heart" traces the brutal odyssey of Jim Pascoe, an ordinary man who, against his will, is complelled to endure extraordinary hardship and heartache as he tries to honour his father's dying words. Set in Cornwall in the early nineteenth century, it evokes a vivid sense of time and place and yet manages to weave timeless themes and universal emotional truths into its rich textures.