The Chase
Le Sanglier: an old house buried deep in the woods of the Dordogne, a region steeped in dark history.
Gerald Feldwick buys Le Sanglier as a refuge. He tells his wife Netty that in France they can start afresh – they can escape the unbearable pain of the event that has fractured their marriage. He tells her they can put the past behind them.
Netty is not so sure.
Netty is right.
‘The Perigord, they said, is life itself. The cradle of man. A festival.’
What people say about The Chase
‘The Chase tells a disturbing story with great vividness … A remarkable achievement’
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
‘This is a haunting book, skilfully written and tantalisingly unravelled. Lorna Fergusson weaves a vivid but dark tale set in the beautiful Dordogne, where past and present fuse in a page-turning mystery. I could go back to this again and again.’ ALISON WEIR, best-selling novelist and historian
‘Steeped in the atmosphere, history and excitement of France … It is very definitely the sort of book that is difficult to put down.’ LIVING FRANCE
‘Beautiful, accomplished and original … Lorna Fergusson describes [rural France] beautifully and manages a large cast of believable characters with great skill.’
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
‘Lorna Fergusson has a natural gift for telling a story – think of Daphne du Maurier … Splendid … it has the power to catch the reader up in the rush of the narrative.’
THE SCOTSMAN
‘Superbly written, ambitious in scope, morally complex, emotionally challenging, this is a real page-turner’
LINDA GILLARD, novelist
‘…her dread of that house drove her on, downhill, scrambling along in the dust, slithering on pebbles, down into the valley scented with gently ripening grapes, fuzzy, warm still with the memory of the day.’