Stumbledirt (Paperback)

The Debut Novel by P.M. Leckie Walls are not built solely to keep people out; they also keep people in. The inhabitants of the village of Everdirge believe that the Thorns have it all. Money, privilege and power. But within the stone facade of the family home, Stumbledirt, a family struggles, governed by tyranny, virtually held prisoner by their patriarch. Widower, Hero Thorn, cruelly rules over his brood with a rod of iron and a heart of stone. None of his children, Wallis, Esme or Cyrus, dare to speak out against him. Love and hope are luxuries, absent in the Thorn household, until a tragic accident brings the arrival of the wayward cousin, Rook, and life at Stumbledirt is never the same again. Stumbledirt is a wonderfully creative debut novel from PM Leckie which chronicles the turbulent lives of the dysfunctional Thorns. Part Wuthering Heights, part black comedy, Leckie effortlessly weaves a web of deceit that bonds the Thorns and exposes their loves, lies, losses and dramas. "One of the most self-assured, confident and accomplished debuts I've had the pleasure to read." - Mark Wilson, author of Head Boy,