The Last Good Man
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Beschrijving
The Last Good Man is a provocative and unsettling novel about fear, accountability and the power of words. Duncan Peck travels from the city to Dartmoor in search of his cousin and encounters a village that looks ordinary at first glance: tea rooms, barley fields, a church and a schoolhouse. Yet the community is governed by a vast wall on which anyone may write anonymous accusations about neighbours or misdeeds. When Duncan arrives, the quiet is stirred and the wall becomes a wrenching instrument of judgment. Messages that denounce secrets destabilize the village, and the reckoning that follows forces characters to confront responsibility, truth and the violence inherent in public shaming. The book asks what hope we can place in language when extinction feels near, and it builds a claustrophobic atmosphere of suspicion that lingers long after the last page.
Set on Dartmoor, the narrative moves between the lived textures of village life and the chilling consequences of collective denunciation. The prose traces how fear and guilt intersect, how communities police themselves, and how a single outsider can unsettle a tightly knit world. The Last Good Man is a meditation on atonement and the limits of justice, offering a stark reflection on what people are willing to believe when their social fabric is threatened.
Features
- Betty Trask Prize winner
- Dartmoor village setting and a wall of anonymous accusations
- Duncan Peck travels from city to countryside
- Themes: fear, responsibility, atonement, public writing
- 320 pages, paperback, Bloomsbury Publishing
- Published 2 September 2021
Beschrijving
The Last Good Man is a provocative and unsettling novel about fear, accountability and the power of words. Duncan Peck travels from the city to Dartmoor in search of his cousin and encounters a village that looks ordinary at first glance: tea rooms, barley fields, a church and a schoolhouse. Yet the community is governed by a vast wall on which anyone may write anonymous accusations about neighbours or misdeeds. When Duncan arrives, the quiet is stirred and the wall becomes a wrenching instrument of judgment. Messages that denounce secrets destabilize the village, and the reckoning that follows forces characters to confront responsibility, truth and the violence inherent in public shaming. The book asks what hope we can place in language when extinction feels near, and it builds a claustrophobic atmosphere of suspicion that lingers long after the last page.
Set on Dartmoor, the narrative moves between the lived textures of village life and the chilling consequences of collective denunciation. The prose traces how fear and guilt intersect, how communities police themselves, and how a single outsider can unsettle a tightly knit world. The Last Good Man is a meditation on atonement and the limits of justice, offering a stark reflection on what people are willing to believe when their social fabric is threatened.
Features
- Betty Trask Prize winner
- Dartmoor village setting and a wall of anonymous accusations
- Duncan Peck travels from city to countryside
- Themes: fear, responsibility, atonement, public writing
- 320 pages, paperback, Bloomsbury Publishing
- Published 2 September 2021
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