Pollard (novel)

Pilcrow

First edition
Author	Laura Beatty
Cover artist	photo taken by David Spero at Brithdir Mawr
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Publisher	Chatto & Windus
Publication date	2008
Media type	Print
Pages	320
Awards	Authors' Club First Novel Award
ISBN

Pollard is the debut novel of Laura Beatty, first published in hardback in 2008 by Chatto & Windus and the following year in paperback by Vintage Books. This was her first novel though she had previously written biographies. It won the Authors' Club First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize

The novel concerns Anne, a teenager who leaves her chaotic home life and finds sanctuary in the nearby woods where she makes a new life for herself, foraging and hunting for food and building a house...

The author lives in Salcey Forest in Northamptonshire, one of the few remaining medieval hunting forests in England and which provided the inspiration for the novel, including a tree-top walkway and survival courses.