SWEET FRUIT, SOUR LAND

Book number: 92219 Product format: Paperback Author: REBECCA LEY

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Winner of the Betty Trask Award 2019. When a wealthy client visits Mathilde's dressmaking shop, she finds herself drawn into the only surviving circle of luxury left in a barren London. Attending parties offers a welcome escape from life governed by ration cards and a strictly enforced child policy. Here she meets enigmatic government minister George and piano-playing Jaminder, with whom an intense friendship blossoms. As their relationship grows stronger, George's grip on Mathilde tightens, as she tries to discover where the illicit food is coming from, where women disappear to, and what price she must pay to avoid bringing a child into a cruel, ever-changing world. Set in the chillingly plausible post-apocalyptic Britain and written with prose to savour, the novel is about what it means to be human when civilisation has been destroyed. 293pp, paperback.

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