Everything Will Swallow You

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Have you ever been curious about how people live when nobody is watching? Have you wondered whether there's more going on than meets the eye?</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Eric and Carl live in Dorset in a small white cottage under the shadow of a big cliff. Eric sells old records and antiques. Carl cooks cleans and crochets. Nearing seventy Eric is a lifelong accumulator of obscure objects whose easygoing chaotic approach to life masks some of the unaddressed sadness of his past. The significantly younger Carl is an old soul who has a sophisticated emotional intelligence and likes swimming mid-century female novelists fibre arts and Dolly Parton. If you passed them on a walk you may not pay them much attention. Most likely you would see Carl's long floppy ears tail and fur and mistake him for a dog.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>The story of Eric and Carl's friendship spans twenty-one years: a constant anchor in a changing world. During that time they adopt an eccentric unlikely gang of fellow travellers. Their wanderings through South West England unfold against a backdrop of lived local folklore and hints at future apocalypse. All the while Carl's true nature remains a closely guarded secret.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Tom Cox's third novel is a rare gem centred around the importance of friendship the power of landscape and the joy of accepting the unusual. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Everything Will Swallow You</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> will make you think deeply about the place you occupy in the grand scheme of things and give fresh perspectives on how to live and love in the present moment.</span></p><p></p>