Description
Teenagers Lisa and Victor are closer than a brother and sister have any right to be. So close that they smother and suffocate one another, yanking and wrestling their lives and emotions into a tangled knot.
In the flat, damp wooded fen that is their homeland, while their sarcastic father and impotent mother recede from influence, Lisa and Victor grow into loud, aggressive, foul mouthed loners who are able to find peace and comfort only when alone together - at school, at home, at The Seat of Learning, in bed... Fearful of and drawn to exposure all at once, with their younger sister Anna their witness and offspring of sorts, the intensity of their incestuous relation ship and of their sensitivities and frustrations - requires that the outcome be nothing if not dramatic.
Whisky-fuelled, taboo-blind and sharp-tongued, The Happy Hunting Grounds is a long, long day's journey into night, an unnervingly compelling tale from the marshy great plains of the northern Netherlands.
