Will I love Albion?

A consequential social gathering also provides the focal point for Anna Hope’s fifth novel. To reveal those consequences, however, would be to spoil its central revelation: a scene that the story works inexorably towards and away from, and which detonates like a hand-grenade at its very heart.

With its multiple viewpoints and emblematic setting, Albion is unapologetically state-of-the nation (and, indeed, state-of-the-species), but rooted in a perceptive depiction of character, and rendered with a poetic description of place. The place is an English country house, of the type the National Trust might have custody of were it not in… show more.