The Devil's Footprints

A Romance

John Burnside

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Once, on a winter's night many years ago, after a heavy snow, the devil passed through the Scottish fishing town of Coldhaven, leaving a trail of dark hoofprints across the streets and roofs of the sleeping town. Michael Gardiner has lived in Coldhaven all his life, but still feels like an outsider, a blow-in. But that is about to change.

Reviews

"The Devil's Footprints is a classic tale with an old-fashioned, gripping plot. But it is also helplessly good at the things Burnside loves best: geography, the neighbours, the way people's lives go, and the way people's other, secret lives turn out" Anne Enright, Guardian.co.uk
"Burnside is a writer of great skill and subtlety whose work evokes the ennui and malevolent desperation of small town life, where the outsider is both feared and tormented." Nicholos Foxton, Time Out London