The Barefoot Road

Written by Vivienne Vermes

Narrated by Vivienne Vermes

A young woman is found, emaciated and unconscious, in the mountains surrounding a village in Transylvania. When the villagers discover she is of the same ethnic group that was driven out of the region years before, they are reminded of their part in the bloodshed, and old wounds reopen.

While the story unfolds in the microcosm of small village in the past,its themes are universal and timeless: the fear of the outsider, the supernatural versus the natural, and the force of desire between a man and a woman.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Author's Republic
• Release date: Apr 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781662105319

Vivienne Vermes

Vivienne Vermes is a writer and actress who has previously published three collections of poetry, performed her work all over Europe and run creative writing workshops. She is the winner of Paragram Poetry Prize and Petite Prose Prize in 2016, and of the Mail on Sunday’s Best Opening to a Novel Competition, as well as Flash500’s prize for short fiction.