Devilwood

Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Tom Franklin teaches in the University of Mississippi’s MFA programme and lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, the poet Beth Ann Fennelly, and their children.

What a gift to have a new Tom Franklin novel, and Devilwood would have been worth any wait. A fleet and sinister tale of an earnest lawman, busted marriages, charismatic pastors, wayward believers and the dark mysteries of the old woods, Devilwood offers up a world where everyone is haunted by the past, and the past’s past. An unholy collision between Cormac McCarthy and Stephen King, it’s utterly enthralling