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North Wales, 1945. Twelve-year-old Jackie is an evacuee, Iolo, her host, is touched by Gwyn ap Nudd, the Welsh god of the chase, and from him Jackie learns hunting's ancient secret lore. She knows every hound in his pack, every stream and covert in their valley, and by sleeping in…

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Full disclosure! I know Jenny Newman and I have always admired the sharpness and boldness of her writing. She is a powerful storyteller and for me, when I was at last able to read her new novel it was an electric moment. In the Blood is a dramatic and unsettling story about a young girl growing up in a decrepit country house just after the second world war. As an evacuee in Wales Jackie is lodged with a huntsman and becomes more hound than girl. The extraordinary empathic link that young Jackie shares with horse and hound and fox and…

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