The wolf pit

By Will Cohu

Subjects: England, social life and customs, Families, Manners and customs, Family, Childhood and youth, Great britain, social conditions, Social life and customs, Social conditions

Description: In 1966, two years after he was born, author Will Cohu's grandparents moved to Bramble Carr, a remote cottage on the Yorkshire moors. To a child spending his summers and winters there, the moors were full of freedom; only later would Will become aware of the price the adults had paid for life in this most romantic of settings. THE WOLF PIT depicts a rural Britain that is passionate, funny and frightening, where the idyll is sometimes shot through with drink, disappointment and the black dog of self-destruction ...