An English Western inspired by William Faulkner, Beneath the Trees of Eden is Tim Binding''s masterpiece: a visionary depiction of England at the twilight of a rebellious era, told through the story of a renegade couple as they travel across the country''s motorways. ''Transcends its quotidian English setting with hallucinatory prose and characters that seem restlessly redrawn on every page . . . There''s an abundance of pleasures here . . . A novel to cherish for its ambition and its portrayal of a vanished world'' Literary Review''Fierce, untamed, animal in its joy. Terrific'' Patrick McCabe''A glorious road-trip of novel'' Louise KennedyAlice is just twenty when she becomes involved with Louis, a brooding, older man who has spent his life building some of the first motorways to stretch across the landscapes of England. With a child on the way, the couple set off on the road together, determined to carve out a life for themselves off the beaten track.But as their
