Devil's Day (First U.S. edition.)

A new novel by the author ofThe Loney,which was praised by Stephen King as an amazing piece of fiction.In the wink of an eye, as quick as a flea,The Devil he jumped from me to thee.And only when the Devil had gone,Did I know that he and Id been one . . . Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the farm where he grew up, to help gather the sheep down from the moors for the winter.

Very little changes in the Endlands, but this year, his grandfatherthe Gafferhas died and Johns new wife, Katherine, is accompanying him for the first time.

Each year, the Gaffer would redraw the boundary lines of the village, with pen and paperbut also through the remembrance of tales and timeless communal rituals, which keep the sheep safe from the Devil.

But as the farmers of the Endlands bury the Gafferand prepare to gather the sheep, they begin to wonder whether theyve let the Devil in after all.