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**SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING HELENA BONHAM-CARTER**
FROM THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GALLOWS POLE COMES A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
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'A book that always feels like summer' The Times
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1 author picked The Offing as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Excellent, enthralling, and while full of vocabulary unfamiliar to me, I enjoyed encountering new words without this ever slowing down my reading. A touching portrait of a wandering soul, and post Second World War north-east England.
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