Night Comes Down [TRADE PAPER ]

Night Comes Downis set in a remote town in the borderlands between England and Wales in the early years of Queen Victorias reign.

Grace Matthews, the only child of the towns learned doctor, loves the woods, the valleys, and the streams in her quiet corner of the world. She is a loner and spends as much of her life as she can outdoorsher desire to be in nature only curbed by her fathers unceasing wish to burden her with chores after the untimely death of her beloved mother.

Whenever she can get away, Grace watches in fascination and quiet horror as a branch line of the railway is built in the next valley over from hers. Before too long she finds the navvies camp and, against all her instincts, falls in love with a farm boy called Sean from County Sligo in Ireland who has his own story to tell.

Meanwhile, Graces fathers habitual taking of snuff leads him towards an ever greater mental and physical breakdown.

A fine novel intended to lap at our own shores of environmental angst, Those dead rooks were us. Richard Lofthouse, University of Oxford Alumni

Aronowitz is also a poet, and his narrative echoes that in the rich, descriptive nature writing. The novel is propulsive and puzzling& A wonderfully immersive read. Janice Ottersberg, Historical Novel Society

Richard Aronowitz grew up in rural Gloucestershire, and studied at Durham University, the Courtauld Institute, and at Oxford University. His writing has been published inThe GuardianandThe Independentnewspapers in the U.K., as well in many leading literary journals, includingThe London MagazineandStand. His poems have been shortlisted for the?Bridport Prize?and the?Troubadour International Poetry Prize, and anthologised in?Anvil New Poets 3. His debut poetry collection?Life Lessons?came out in 2019. Richards novels includeFive Amber Beads(2006),?Its Just the Beating of My Heart(2010),?An Als)