The Lychway

Chessen Waterhouse is a dreamer. Brought up in a farmhouse in the lonely wilds of Dartmoor, she is considered an outsider by her peers and the local community, so she takes refuge in books. The story moves between late eighteenth-century and present-day Dartmoor and London, following two protagonists through grief, personal loss and the constraints of their times, and mixing legend with reality along the way.

The novel grew out of Rebecca Beattie's research into the Lychway, the old corpse road across Dartmoor, which she walked herself, and it draws on the folklore and landscape of the moor she grew up on.

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