'I disgust you, but are you any different? Do you not crawl with secrets and lies and dark rememberings?' So says the magpie, a querulous commentator on the human lives he observes in the bleak moorland village of Stonemoor. There's Skylark, dumped by her boyfriend, broke, and haunted by the unexplained death of her father; Edward, an awkward, lonely boy with a mysterious past; Pauline, peering back through time to write the history of those who have come before; and Peter, tending his garden and writing letters to his long lost sister. Thrown together like spoons in a cutlery drawer, these four lost souls come together on a quest for truth. One that will bring them into the darkness of themselves, into extraordinary danger, but ultimately into the redemption only courage and love can bring. The Judas Spoon is a novel of voices, which come together to tell a story of love and betrayal. Dark, funny and moving, this is a novel which explores the past as much as the present, and takes the reader not simply on a journey of mystery and adventure, but also towards an understanding of what it means to be human in a world where history, and all of its dishonesty, repeats itself to leave us breathless with hurt, but perpetually hopeful of what the future, and ourselves, can bring.
