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Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa First Novel Award

Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2018

Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2018

Longlisted for The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

New Faces of Fiction 2017, Observer

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A disturbing and beautiful novel with an oblique, unexpected approach to the horrors of war. If the ‘horrors of war’ is an off-putting phrase for you take heart, this is not about the violent frontline of World War I but its consequences and effects on those directly and indirectly involved. The heroine is a young girl called Lucy, a wonderfully touching character, who is taken into the dark woods, where fairy tale and true-life horror overlap. This is a profound book, but it is also often funny and moving, ultimately illustrating the human capacity for kindness and love.

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