Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2019, shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019, and shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018! When the Greek Queen Helen is... Læs mere
Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well... Læs mere
A deeply insightful debut novel by the 1995 Booker Prize winner which reveals woman's experiences of poverty.
London, 1940. As the bombs fall on the city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives, working alongside former friend Kit Neville, while her... Læs mere
Written by one of the finest award-winning chroniclers of the lives of northern working-class women.
When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor determines to uncover the truth. Only then can she finally close the door to Toby's room.
Spring, 1914. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks' studio for his life-drawing class. When war breaks out and the army won't take Paul, he enlists in the Belgian Red... Læs mere
London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men - pacifists, objectors, homosexuals - conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down.