Longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize There's a village an hour from London. It's no different from many others today: one pub, one church, redbrick cottages, some public housing, and a few larger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking...
An entrancing new novel by the author of the prizewinning Grief Is the Thing with Feathers