Aug 31 2024 29 mins
As the film adaptation of Starve Acre is released we speak to Andrew Michael Hurley about the origins and evolving life of his much loved novel.
Set in the seventies, in the deceptive and unforgiving northern landscapes that fill Andrew’s work, Starve Acre is the story of a family with a bitter inheritance. Sudden tragedy leads to costly obsession and primeval forces are unearthed in an unnerving and sinister return, truly fertile ground for cinema.
Directed by Daniel Kokotaljo (who many of you will know from his fantastic feature debut Apostasy) and starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark it is the perfect night out as the seasons change and the darkness draws in.
Starve Acre is published by John Murray
'Genuinely and brilliantly disturbing.' Roddy Doyle
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