WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH BOOK AWARDS - FIRST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, SCOTSMAN AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

'A beautiful book ... It warmed my heart' MAX PORTER
'Electrifying ... A pocket epic' GUARDIAN

An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives of women - by a major new talent

In the year of 1413, two women meet for the first time in Norwich.

Before they part, Julian will entrust Margery with a secret - one that will change the course of history.

'You will read it in no time but be thinking about it for ages after' FRANK COTTRELL-BOYCE, GUARDIAN, Book of the day

'Miraculously conjured ... Brilliantly done' THE TIMES, Book of the Month

'The best first novel I've read in years ... So full and so vivid; it is amazing' RODDY DOYLE

'A vibrant portrait of female courage' OBSERVER

'A novel of rare brightness and clarity, concise and yet capacious: it illuminates like a shaft of sunlight' IMOGEN HERMES GOWAR

Victoria MacKenzie is a fiction writer and poet. She is the winner of the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award and the inaugural Emerging Writer Award from Moniack Mhor. She was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, as well as being awarded prestigious writing residencies in Scotland, Finland and Australia. She teaches creative writing for the Open College of the Arts. She lives in Scotland.

victoriamackenzie.net
@forthygreatpain