Two characters on their own in the rural landscape of Wales, one a violent, lifelong misfit and the other a humble farmer and would-be family man, are drawn unknowingly toward each other by fate in this brief new novel. “Fate” in this case is really the guiding intelligence of author Cynan Jones, who has the knack for getting under the skin of a story and imparting truth about the fundamental nature of things. Brutal and tender by turns, The Dig proceeds at an inexorable pace and once begun, all but insists that the reader follow it all the way to the end.
–James Crossley, Island Books, Mercer Island, WA
Dig into this novel, available now in paperback from Island Books and other independent bookstores.