Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon'A magnificent, sweeping epic' JENNIFER SAINT, Sunday Times bestselling author of ARIADNE 'Shannon is simply a master of the genre' C. S. PACAT, New York Times bestselling author of DARK RISE 'A tremendous triumph' LONDON SHAH, award winning author of the LIGHT OF THE ABYSS series 'A gorgeous, glittering epic' DAILY MAIL A return to the world of Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling The Priory of the Orange Tree Tunuva Melim

The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen

A terrific novel' - William Boyd

Coogan argues

author of IN OUR MAD AND FURIOUS CITY 'When writing is this honest

Seamus Heaney and Don Paterson

unhappy Vietnamese-American disappears from her new home in Saigon without a trace

Lyra is now studying at St Sophia's College

women - especially those with power or influence - were often subjected to rumour

Brilliantly funny misheard lyrics and outrageous earworms'Six o'clock already I was just in the middle of a dream

Or are they delaying the inevitable

From Palestine at the dawn of the first millennium and journeying across fifty countries to a life amongst the stars in the third

Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship