When the remains of a young child are discovered during a winter storm, Smith is forced to remember an Easter pilgrimage he made decades earlier with his deeply religious family.

Each year, they travelled to the Loney—a bleak and isolated stretch of the Lancashire coast—hoping its ancient shrine might miraculously cure Smith’s brother, Hanny, who does not speak. But during their final visit, the brothers encounter hostile locals, unsettling rituals and something ancient lurking beneath the landscape.

Atmospheric, slow-burning and deeply ominous, The Loney is a literary folk-horror novel about faith, obsession and the terrible price of miracles.