Beastings by Benjamin Myers

Beastings

Benjamin Myers

280 pages • first pub 2014 (view editions)

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Beastings is ideal for readers who relish a bleak, elemental chase across England’s wildest fells while observing how a fleeing girl’s raw instinct for motherhood collides with the rigid moral claims of priest, poacher, and landscape itself.

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Winner of the Portico Prize for Literature and the Northern Writers' Award'A brilliant, brutal novel' ROBERT MACFARLANEA girl and a baby. A priest and a poacher. A savage pursuit through the landscape of a changing rural England.When a teenage gir...

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Community Reviews

4.11
based on 237 reviews

Moods

dark: 100%

tense: 71%

challenging: 48%

adventurous: 35%

emotional: 33%

sad: 33%

mysterious: 17%

reflective: 15%

hopeful: 2%

Pace

18% of readers chose fast
51% of readers chose medium
29% of readers chose slow
fast
medium
slow

Plot or character driven?

17% of readers chose Plot
51% of readers chose A mix
31% of readers chose Character
Plot
A mix
Character

Strong character development?

15% of readers chose Yes
61% of readers chose Complicated
23% of readers chose No
Yes
Complicated
No

Loveable characters?

6% of readers chose Yes
51% of readers chose Complicated
41% of readers chose No
Yes
Complicated
No

Diverse cast of characters?

3% of readers chose Yes
11% of readers chose Complicated
85% of readers chose No
Yes
Complicated
No

Flaws of characters a main focus?

73% of readers chose Yes
11% of readers chose Complicated
15% of readers chose No
Yes
Complicated
No

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