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* A New Statesman Most Anticipated Title for 2023 *

From an award-winning Scottish poet, an unforgettable novel about memory and radical forgiveness

How far would you go to overcome the limits of your own forgiveness?

Quinn is serving a life sentence for a crime he's convinced he hasn't committed.…

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1 author picked Quinn as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love a novel that provokes me to think hard about what it means to be human. 

I’ll be forever haunted by this story about a troubled man who commits an unspeakable act of violence, and the mother of the woman he murdered, who invites him into her home. The story made me rethink everything about the boundaries of love and forgiveness and whether it’s really possible to be at peace with events you can’t change.

Equally haunting is the spare, poetic prose of Em Strang’s writing. From time to time, I open the book just to ruminate on a…

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