An Olive Grove in Ends : The dazzling debut novel about love, faith and community, by an electrifying new voice by Moses McKenzie

An Olive Grove in Ends : The dazzling debut novel about love, faith and community, by an electrifying new voice by Moses McKenzieONE OF THE OBSERVER'S 10 MUST READ DEBUT NOVELISTS OF 2022A GUARDIAN NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022WINNER: HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE 2023; SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD 2023; SOHO HOUSE BREAKTHROUGH WRITER AWARD 2022SHORTLISTED: THE WRITERS' GUILD BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2023'Luminous prose, rendered with sensitivity and without sentimentalism. An astonishing debut' Cherie Jones, author of HOW THE ONE ARMED SISTER SWEEPS HER HOUSESayon Hughes, a young Black man from Bristol,

This book is an account of that journey

is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain

and its significance determined: all else is mere embellishment

So when he's called in to investigate a homicide at a local apartment

The Rooster House is at once a riveting journey into the complex history of a wounded country and a profoundly moving tribute to hope and the refusal of despair

In this stunning

With the passage of an infamous new Fugitive Slave Act in 1850

Pastora - always on a mission to solve her sisters' problems - needs to come to terms with her past

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splendid new book'DAN JONES

Seymour’s biography reveals a proud and fiercely independent artist