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2000s: Two brothers. One mute, the other his lifelong protector. A lonely Lancashire setting
The Loney
What you need to know before your trail
Two brothers. One mute, the other his lifelong protector.
Year after year, their family visits the same sacred shrine on a desolate strip of coastline known as the Loney, in desperate hope of a cure.
In the long hours of waiting, the boys are left alone. And they cannot resist the causeway revealed with every turn of the treacherous tide, the old house they glimpse at its end . . .
Many years on, Hanny is a grown man no longer in need of his brother’s care.
But then the child’s body is found.
And the Loney always gives up its secrets, in the end.
Travel Guide
Lancashire
The Loney is an isolated part of the Lancashire coast. It’s drenched in atmosphere and very very bleak. The rain and bleakness are relentless and they cover the entire novel and envelope the characters and moorland
If it had another name , I never knew, but the locals called it The Loney – that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune were Hanny and I went every Easter”
The landscape and language is a master class in gothic. The Moorings is a shabby and isolated house in the middle of nowhere.
The other atmosphere is the Catholic upbringing during the 1960s and 70s , and the change between the olden days and the more modern ways. The environment is starkness with themes of religion, history, religious beliefs and dark, dark undercurrents.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Loney
Destination: Lancashire Author/Guide: Andrew Michael Hurley Departure Time: 2000s
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