Sheep
A debut novel in which a couple and their young son settle in a ramshackle Welsh farmhouse, hoping that a change of scene will help them come to terms with the death of their daughter. Its former occupants, they are appalled to discover, had fallen prey to drugs, madness, incarceration and murder.
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Simon Maginn
Simon Maginn (born 1961) is a British writer who has written Sheep (Corgi 1994), Virgins and Martyrs (Corgi, 1995), A Sickness of the Soul (Corgi 1995), Methods of Confinement (Black Swan 1996) and a novella Rattus which was published alongside a novella by Gary Fry entitled The Invisible Architect of Psychopathy in Feral Companions (Pendragon Press 2010). A film version of Sheep has been released as The Dark. The novels are horror/psychological thrillers, and are mostly out of print.
Simon Maginn also writes satirical comedies as Simon Nolan, including As Good as it Gets (Quartet Books 1999), The Vending Machine of Justice (Quartet Books 2001) and Whitehawk (Revenge Ink 2010).
