The Ballad of Seth and Eliza
Adrian Edmondson
Apr 2027 · Canongate Books
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One rain-lashed night, Eliza, a fading folk music legend, strides out across the North York Moors with her life savings in a rucksack. She has a plan. But when she wakes the next morning, severely hungover, she can't remember what it was. Or where the gold is now.
Husband Seth is holding the family farm together. He's been at it for twenty years: looking after their three children, his ailing mother and the family's herd of goats, while absorbing whatever Eliza throws at him. But everybody's got a breaking point.
Throw in a long-lost sister, a best friend going off the rails and a feud with the village's dodgiest family - and Seth and Eliza have their hands full. It's possible the lost gold might save them. That is, if their own buried secrets don't sink them first.
The Ballad of Seth and Eliza is a big-hearted family saga. Adrian Edmondson's novel shows us how the greatest love songs are never about easy love. And nor, it turns out, is the greatest life.
Husband Seth is holding the family farm together. He's been at it for twenty years: looking after their three children, his ailing mother and the family's herd of goats, while absorbing whatever Eliza throws at him. But everybody's got a breaking point.
Throw in a long-lost sister, a best friend going off the rails and a feud with the village's dodgiest family - and Seth and Eliza have their hands full. It's possible the lost gold might save them. That is, if their own buried secrets don't sink them first.
The Ballad of Seth and Eliza is a big-hearted family saga. Adrian Edmondson's novel shows us how the greatest love songs are never about easy love. And nor, it turns out, is the greatest life.
One rain-lashed night, Eliza, a fading folk music legend, strides out across the North York Moors with her life savings in a rucksack. She has a plan. But when she wakes the next morning, severely hungover, she can't remember what it was. Or where the gold is now.
Husband Seth is holding the fam...
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About the author
Adrian Edmondson is an English actor, comedian, musician, writer and television presenter. He studied drama at Manchester University, and his early work in 80s cult classics The Young Ones and Bottom pioneered the
way for alternative TV comedy in Britain. Lately he's concentrated on 'straighter' roles in TV series such as War & Peace and Alien: Earth, and at the RSC as Malvolio in Twelfth Night and Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. He's
been a member of numerous bands, notably The Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band and his folk band The Bad Shepherds. He presents the documentary series Sam & Ade Go Birding with close friend and fellow actor Sam West. His book Tilly & the Time Machine won a Sainsbury's Children's Book Award, his autobiography Berserker! was an instant Sunday Times bestseller, and his 2025 radio play Waiting for Waiting For Godot recently won a Gold Award at the New York Radio Festival Awards.
way for alternative TV comedy in Britain. Lately he's concentrated on 'straighter' roles in TV series such as War & Peace and Alien: Earth, and at the RSC as Malvolio in Twelfth Night and Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. He's
been a member of numerous bands, notably The Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band and his folk band The Bad Shepherds. He presents the documentary series Sam & Ade Go Birding with close friend and fellow actor Sam West. His book Tilly & the Time Machine won a Sainsbury's Children's Book Award, his autobiography Berserker! was an instant Sunday Times bestseller, and his 2025 radio play Waiting for Waiting For Godot recently won a Gold Award at the New York Radio Festival Awards.
Adrian Edmondson is an English actor, comedian, musician, writer and television presenter. He studied drama at Manchester University, and his early work in 80s cult classics The Young Ones and Bottom pioneered the
way for alternative TV comedy in Britain. Lately he's concentrated on 'straighter' ...
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