I've just started reading it and it's odd but I'm enjoying it.
Has anybody else read it, or the blog? I've been avoiding the blog so I don't spoil the book.
I'm wishing they would make a TV series already.
For those who haven't heard of it Scarfolk is a town in the North East of England, perpetually stuck in the 1970's.
When a strangers passes through and his twin sons go missing, he remains in the town to try and track them down.
Somehow the story of what he discovers is sent in the form of a notebook and some bits of loose paper to an acquaintance, who at first thinks he's been sent some old recycling by accident but soon realises this is a mystery which requires solving, and he calls the book and leaflets he was sent the 'archive' while he tries to piece together what Scarfolk is and what might have happened. The book I'm reading is his thoughts on the 'archive' and his investigations and ideas.
There's a big concern about keeping Rabies out of Britain, but due to some illiteracy issues the paperwork is also targeting Rabbis, Rabbits, and Babies.
It's told partly in written form and partly with photo's, newspaper articles, posters, and similar memorabilia all from the 1970's or appearing to be so.
I don't think it's going to be everybody's idea of a good book but I'm loving the weirdness, the 70's memorabilia, and weirdly a lot of it seems very current and relevant today. Everything is almost normal enough to feel real, but not quite.
There are dates such as 21nd March or times quoted as 5:66pm, that kind of thing and the policemen are possibly hallucinating because of the dye in their uniforms. As I said, it's odd, but so far very good.
I found it by accident because of a pin on Pinterest and nobody I know has even heard of it, let alone read it.
I'm hoping someone here has.