Benjamin Wood

Seascraper is a mesmerising portrait of a young man confined by his class and the ghosts of his family's past, dreaming of artistic fulfilment. Thomas lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, working his grandpa's trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the grey, gloomy beach to scrape for shrimp;...

Seascraper is a mesmerising portrait of a young man confined by his class and the ghosts of his family's past, dreaming of artistic fulfilment. Thomas lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, working his grandpa's trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the grey, gloomy beach and scrape for shrimp....