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Portraits of British Life through fiction on Open Book this week,

from the quaint and class-ridden to the downright creepy and the bang up-to-date.

We meet the elite book club trying to get a handle on our nation through its literature and consider what the novels published in 1995 can tell us about that moment in time.

But we begin with a collision between ancient and contemporary England by a master of folk horror.

Starvaker is the latest novel from Andrew Michael Hurley, winner of the Costa First

Novel Award for the Loney and the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award for his

follow-up Devil's Day. His latest details the agony of grieving a child, as a couple relocated

to the remote Yorkshire Dales find themselves embroiled in an unsettling revisiting of old history,

pulsating around a great oak that once stood on their land.

Richard looked out of the window at the white rolling of the dail. He would have given anything

to have seen the stithwaite oak on a wintry evening like this. The shadow of its great cranium

of branches

splayed across the snow, a centuries-old behemoth that had, so they said, seen 16 kings and

queens from plantagenets to stuets come and go. If all that were true, and if it had lived longer,

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