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* WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE *
* SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE *
The rapturously acclaimed new novel by the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, hailed as 'excellent', 'gripping', 'as suspenseful as any thriller', 'engrossing', 'moving' and 'magnificent'.
One rainswept winter's night in 1809, an unconscious man…
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Andrew Miller doesn’t do conventional heroes. In his most recent novel, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free (set during the Napoleonic Wars), two soldiers are given the task of finding a suspected war criminal.
On the subsequent manhunt from Portsmouth to the west coast of Scotland, my expectations were repeatedly – and gloriously – upended.
The pursued doesn’t know he’s being pursued. It isn’t even clear if he’s guilty. The question is both pressing and increasingly irrelevant, except as a matter for his conscience and as a matter of public relations for the British army.
More than anything, it’s this…
This novel takes place during the Napoleon Wars.
The guilty conscience, PTSD, and war crimes of a British Captain drive him to seek tranquility in the Scottish Hebrides. Before reading this novel, I knew little about this time period and had never heard of the Scottish Hebrides.
The author transported me to the Hebrides so accurately that when I looked up pictures after finishing the novel they were the exact replicas of those in my imagination.
This novel has an existential heart yet is plot-driven and action-packed with romance and even moments of humor. The flow of prose and the…
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