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As featured on the Radio
2 Book Club. Some doors
are locked for a
reason...Newly married,
newly widowed Elsie is
sent to see out her
pregnancy at her late
husband`s crumbling
country estate, The
Bridge.With her new
servants resentful and
the local villagers
actively hostile, Elsie
only has her husband`s
awkward cousin for
company. Or so she
thinks. For inside her
new home lies a locked
room, and beyond that
door lies a
two-hundred-year-old
diary and a deeply
unsettling painted wooden
figure - a Silent
Companion - that bears a
striking resemblance to
Elsie herself...
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A Zoe Ball ITV Book Club
Pick`Sally Magnusson has
taken an amazing true
event and created a
brilliant first novel.
It`s an epic journey in
every sense: although
it`s historical, it`s
incredibly relevant to
our world today. We had
to pick it` Zoe Ball Book
Club`A remarkable feat of
imagination.. . I enjoyed
and admired it in equal
measure` Sarah Perry,
author of The Essex
Serpent `A powerful tale
of Barbary pirates.. .
richly imagined and
energetically told.`
Sunday Times - 100 Best
Books to Read This
Summer`Engrossing` Sunday
Express `Fascinating.. .
a really, really good
read` BBC R2 Book
Club`The best sort of
historical novel`
Scotsman `A lyrical tale`
Stylist `Compelling
stuff` Good
Housekeeping`An
extraordinarily immersive
read.. . examining themes
of motherhood, identity,
exile and freedom`
Guardian1627. In a
notorious historical
event, pirates raided
the coast of Iceland and
abducted 400 people into
slavery in Algiers. Among
them a pastor, his wife,
and their children.In
her acclaimed debut novel
Sally Magnusson imagines
what history does not
record: the experience of
Asta, the pastor`s wife,
as she faces her losses
with the one thing left
to her - the stories from
home - and forges an
ambiguous bond with the
man who bought
her.Uplifting, moving,
and witty, The
Sealwoman`s Gift speaks
across centuries and
oceans about loss, love,
resilience and
redemption.Chosen for the
BBC Radio 2 Book Club (a
really really good book)
and the ITV Zoe Ball Book
Club (the quality of the
writing is
amazing).`Icelandic
history has been brought
to extraordinary life...
An accomplished and
intelligent novel` Yrsa
Sigurðardóttir, author
of Why Did You Lie?`Vivid
and compelling` Adam
Nichols, co-translator
of The Travels of
Reverend Ólafur Egilsson
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The stunning debut novel,
from the author of A
Little Life.It is 1950
when Norton Perina, a
young doctor, embarks on
an expedition to a remote
Micronesian island in
search of a rumoured lost
tribe. There he
encounters a strange
group of forest dwellers
who appear to have
attained a form of
immortality that
preserves the body but
not the mind. Perina
uncovers their secret and
returns with it to
America, where he soon
finds great success. But
his discovery has come at
a terrible cost, not
only for the islanders,
but for Perina
himself.Hanya
Yanagihara`s The People
in the Trees marks the
debut of a remarkable new
voice in American
fiction.
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