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The Mating Habits of Stags

Former farmhand Jake, now a widower in his seventies, goes on the run in the Yorkshire Dales after committing a crime.As he travels the countryside trying to avoid capture, we learn of the events of his past: the wife he loved and lost, their child that he knows cannot be his, and the deep-seated need for revenge that manifests itself in a moment of violence.`The Mating Habits of Stags` reveals afresh the lyrical prose and mastery of character that distinguish Ray Robinson`s fiction.An early version of the story was released in 2016 as the short film `Edith`, starring Peter Mullan and Michelle Fairley, which was Bafta-longlisted for Best British Short Film.