Wild ground

A working-class Romeo & Julietset in the beauty and squalor of the Yorkshire edgelands A coming-of-age novel set among a tough community in a town on the edge lands of the rural and the urban - now in paperback At once heart-breaking and hopeful, Wild Ground shows us an all-consuming first love as it grapples with addiction, identity and class barriers. In this tender and moving debut, Emily Usher presents an aching love story impossible to forget. Perfect for readers of gritty, true-to-life writing in the vein of Shuggie Bain, Demon Copperhead and the novels of Roddy Doyle