Tillinghast by Clare Cavenagh #literature PenguinISBN: 9780141999203Extent: 368 pages

PenguinISBN: 9780141999203Extent: 368 pages

as fragile new shoots emerge

above a bay on the Italian Riviera

LONELINESS AND NEW BEGINNINGS

Tillinghast by Clare Cavenagh #literature PenguinISBN: 9780141999203Extent: 368 pagesThere's a name for what he is. He prefers not to use it Stutley Tillinghast lives a solitary life, ostensibly as the minister of a remote rural parish in Rhode Island. For many decades now, what little human contact he allows himself has been brief, frenzied and bloody, and always ends in a shallow grave in his cellar. You and I would have a name for what he is, but he prefers not to use it he has needs, and when they become unbearable, he fulfils