Mari Strachan

Mari Strachan

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Mari Strachan and her husband live on a tiny smallholding in the hills of Ceredigion, West Wales. Blow on a Dead Man’s Embers is her second novel, following the acclaimed The Earth Hums in B Flat.



Davey’s face darkens and he grabs the figure from the tablecloth and throws it into the fire where it immediately begins to smoulder. ‘Cannon fodder,’ he says in a conversational tone. ‘Cannon fodder, little Osian’

Dead Man's Embers

Mari Strachan