Author: Seiffert, Rachel

Second World War fiction

Published on 6 March 2025 by Little, Brown Book Group (Virago Press Ltd) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 464 pages
223 x 145 x 39 | 590g

The new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Dark Room and A Boy in Winter’This fine novel investigates the fate of displaced people in the hazardous, dirty backwash of the second world war’ GUARDIAN’A complex, intelligent, deeply compassionate novel about the unglamorous aftermath of war . . . A brilliant piece of story-telling – stubbornly hopeful’ ANDREW MILLER’Prose that is so lucid, so understated . . . this entire novel reverberates in ways that only haunt the reader more and more deeply, long after its last page’ PAUL HARDING, Booker prize author of THIS OTHER EDEN’I love that her novels take me to unexplored places and times . . . she has brought to life a complex interaction between survivor