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Cloudless

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A powerful debut novel charting the fault lines that open in a farming family in North Wales as they wait for their son to return from the Iraq War. It is autumn 2004, and in a farmhouse on the hills outside Llandudno, Catrin and John endure... Read More
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A powerful debut novel charting the fault lines that open in a farming family in North Wales as they wait for their son to return from the Iraq War.

It is autumn 2004, and in a farmhouse on the hills outside Llandudno, Catrin and John endure the agonising wait for their older son to return from Iraq. His decision to join up has left them reeling, yet there are other battles at home—the working of the land that has been theirs for generations and what to do with their troubled younger son.

Catrin's childhood sweetheart comes back to their small town, forcing the boys' doting mother to confront the life she might have had. And John, desperate to keep farm and family together, turns to ever riskier methods to stay afloat.

As each member of the family grasps at their own tenuous lifeline, they drift further from one another—until, on a cold winter evening, there is a fateful knock at the door.

Written in luminous, exquisitely calibrated prose, Cloudless is a masterful portrayal of the fragility and resilience of human connection.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241654712

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 February 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Fig Tree

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 131.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 238g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Rupert Dastur is a writer, editor and publisher. His writing has been shortlisted for the Bath Short Story Award and the Fish Short Story Prize, and won the Federation of Scottish Writers Award in 2018. He is the founder of TSS Publishing and director of The Cambridge Prizes for Short Fiction, and he runs writing workshops across the UK and abroad. He read English at Cambridge University and lives in London. Cloudless is his debut novel.

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