Country People: 'The book of the summer' Mick Herron

'Told with warmth and wit, Mason's prose shimmers in this immersive ode to stories, to the land, and its people' Lucy Steeds, author of The Artist'A charming, funny, exhilarating Vermont adventure' Clare Fuller, author of Swimming Lessons'Full of joy - and exactly the kind of reading experience we could all do with right now.The book of the summer' Mick Herron, author of Slow HorsesA year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown-a rollicking, lyrical novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, the bestselling author of North Woods and one of America's greatest living writersMiles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles.He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales, and increasingly haunted by a sense that he's become a disappointment to his family.So when his wife Kate accepts a visiting professorship at a pres