Devil's Day

BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FT, METRO AND MAIL ON SUNDAY `The new master of menace` Sunday Times After the blizzard of a century ago, it was weeks before anyone got in or out. By that time, what had happened there, what the Devil had done, was already fable. Devil`s Day is a day for children now, of course. A tradition it`s easy to mock, from the outside. But it`s important to remember why we do what we do. It`s important to know what our grandfathers have passed down to us. Because it`s hard to understand, if you`re not from the valley, how this place is in your blood. That`s why I came back, with Kat; it wasn`t just because the Gaffer was dead. Though that year we may have let the Devil in after all . . .