Idle Grounds by Bamford, Krystelle
Idle Grounds by Bamford, Krystelle

Idle Grounds

"A chilling exploration of privilege, memory, and the unsettling weight of inherited history." --Oprah Daily In this...
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Author: Krystelle Bamford
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Idle Grounds by Bamford, Krystelle

Idle Grounds

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Idle Grounds by Bamford, Krystelle

Idle Grounds

$40.25
Author: Krystelle Bamford
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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"A chilling exploration of privilege, memory, and the unsettling weight of inherited history." --Oprah Daily

In this thrilling New England gothic set in the late 1980s, a group of young cousins wander deep into the woods on their family's property, drawn in by uncanny visions and the disappearance of one of their own--finding that the farther they go, the stranger their surroundings become.

As always with these things it started with a birthday party.

Lingering at the edge of a family party, a troop of cousins loses track of the youngest child among them. With their parents preoccupied with bickering about decades-old crises, the children decide they must set out to investigate themselves--to the rickety chicken coop, the barn and its two troublesome horses, and into the woods that once comprised their late grandmother's property. The more the children search, and the deeper they walk, the more threatening the woods become and the more lost they are, caught between their aunt's home in the present day, their parents' childhood home just through the trees, and the memory of the house their grandmother grew up in. Soon, what began as a quest for answers gives way to a journey that undermines everything they've been told about who they are, where they came from, and what they deserve.

"Unsettling and sharply funny" (The Guardian), Idle Grounds is a rich exploration of the interior lives of children and a gripping meditation on birthright, decline, and the weight of family history. A fable of the distortions of privilege and the impossibility of keeping secrets hidden, this is a novel about straying from home--only to come back unraveled, unsettled, and irrevocably changed.

Author: Krystelle Bamford
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 02/11/2025
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781668070451


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/18/2024
Booklist 01/01/2025 pg. 26
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2025

About the Author
Bamford, Krystelle: - Krystelle Bamford's work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, bath magg, Under the Radar, The Scores, and numerous anthologies including the Best New British and Irish Poets 2019-2021. She is a 2019 Primers poet and was awarded a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. Raised in the US, she now lives in Edinburgh with her partner and children. Idle Grounds is her first novel.
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