The Sending
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0316374385 / Publisher: Little Brown & Co, March 1980
An English artist, suddenly endowed with the power to perceive the preternatural bond between man and animal, is seized by an unrelenting and inexplicable terror emanating from an evil presence living in the Pyrenees
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'Geoffrey Household's prose is as clean and spare and unwaveringly efficient as are his plots' Sunday TimesOn the death of his father, artist and mystic Alfgif Hollaston returns to his Somerset house. There, he befriends Paddy Gadsden, a saddler and horse psychiatrist, and inherits Paddy's polecat, Meg, after Paddy's violent and inexplicable death. But innocent and playful Meg isn't quite what she seems.Soon Alfgif's life and sanity are threatened by a relentless terror, resembling the sixth sense of an animal, which warns when danger is imminent . . .
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