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'A rich layering of history and fiction ... Erudite, elegant but easy-going ... One of the best novels of the year so far' The Times 'Extraordinarily accomplished ... absolutely involving, thanks to beautiful description and a very fine understanding of human emotion ... Tolstoyan in its sly wit and descriptive brilliance ... Humane, thoughtful, compelling and packed with magic, this is a remarkable achievement' Guardian 'So clever and beautifully written, it gripped me from start to end. I abandoned work and family to finish it' Roddy Doyle Unlike anything I've read. With its broad scope and its intimacy and exactness, it cuts through the apparatus of life to the vivid moment' Tessa Hadley 'Hughes-Hallett's ambitious first novel dances between past and present, history and modernity ... magically and movingly evoked, and remains in the imagination long after the reader passes beyond its gates' New Statesman 'Ambitious and accomplished ... a polyphonic narrative ... rich with detail ... leaves you hoping that this late conversion to fiction will prove only the beginning' Observer 'A sensual meditation on the nature of paradise' Mail on Sunday 'A teeming, heaving whirligig of a nove

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Author

Hughes-Hallett, Lucy

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Australia; 4th Estate

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780008126544

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.7 / 5 (208 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14