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Rafaela Acuña y Daubón remembers everything that matters: her beautiful childhood in San Juan, her marriage to Peter, uprooting their children, Ruth & Benny, to the American Midwest, & losing all sense of her place in the world. So she tells no one when her memory begins to slip. Her daughter, in New York with a family of her own, wishes she could forget her muddy feelings about where she comes from – the same feelings which motivated her 22-year-old daughter Daisy to reconnect with their past. Daisy, who has momentarily forgotten everything, hears the word critical in a hospital room in San Juan & remembers, all at once, the car that hurtled towards her, the terrible storm, & something else. What was it? Now Ruth & Rafaela must return to the city where it all began, to gather by Daisy’s bedside & confront the twists of fate that have caused a growing rift in their family & led them to this moment.
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Everyone in the village said nothing good would come of Gabriel’s return. And as Beth looks at the man she loves on trial for murder, she can’t help think they were right. She was 17 when she’d first met Gabriel. Over that heady, intense summer, he made her think and feel and see differently. She thought it was the start of her great love story and that it would last forever. When Gabriel left to become the person his mother expected him to be, she was broken. It was Frank who picked up the pieces. Together they’d built a home very different from the one she’d imagined with Gabriel. And there was a time – even years – when she was happy. Watching her husband and son riding a tractor across their farm, she remembered feeling so sure that, after everything, this was the life she was supposed to be leading. But then Gabriel came back, and all Beth’s certainty about who she was crumbled.
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Staff Pick!
Allanah says…
I am in awe at how stories like this can exist and slip through the cracks of time. So grateful that Virago decided to republish this one!
It’s a feminist fairytale where the maiden doesn’t need rescuing from the dragon, where heroes are in fact a nuisance, and freedom to live a life unchained is valued above all else.
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Halla is the daughter of a king, cast out as a baby into a world of danger and enchantment. She is raised by bears, lives amongst dragons, converses with Valkyries and avoids warmongering heroes. But an encounter with Odin All-Father sets her on a new path as a wanderer through the world, and to a final choice. Is her role in the story already written – as a king’s child, an adopted dragon, or a fearless heroine – or can she travel light?
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This heartwarming and swoonworthy second chance romance about childhood friends reconnecting as adults is the highly anticipated debut novel from BookTok icon Haley Pham.
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‘Tender and thrilling it’s Yuzuki at her best’ELLE
‘Deliciously satisfying’iPAPER
‘I couldn’t stop reading’ COSTANZA CASATI
‘Unsettling, compelling, richly written’ JODIE HARSH
The unmissable new novel of friendship and dangerous obsession from Asako Yuzuki, the award-winning author of the global bestselling sensation Butter.
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A mesmerising debut about two writers in a rural Devon town, seen through the eyes of the community around them
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*A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Good Housekeeping and iPaper*
‘Taut, elegant and heartbreaking’ Monica Ali
‘A brilliant character study of trauma, grief and survival’ Claire Fuller
‘Wonderful? lives up to the hype’ Stephen King
‘Impossibly accomplished’ Chris Whitaker
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This title is part of a landmark series of gem-like individual volumes presenting masters of the form at work in a range of genres and styles. Bringing together past, present, and future in their ninetieth year, ‘Faber Stories’ is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.
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A stunning and deeply moving literary debut of grief, loss and female friendship, set against the backdrop of two cataclysmic natural events.
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Eloise and Lewis rent a car in Las Vegas and take off on a two-week road trip across the American Southwest. While wildfires rage, the couple trace the course of the Colorado River, the aquatic artery on which the Southwest depends for survival. Eloise, an academic, researches the Colorado River as it threatens to run dry, while Lewis grieves his mother and struggles to find a place for himself in the desert where he never felt quite at home. Together they cruise past gaping canyons, blinking motels and lonely stretches of wilderness, trying to understand this uncanny landscape where Georgia O’Keeffe built her home and avant-garde artists dig mysterious installations in the sand. When Eloise begins to suspect she might be pregnant, she hopes to turn Lewis’s attention from the past to the future, but their relationship continues to fracture as they head towards a destination unknown.
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In our near-future world, children are solely conceived by artificial insemination. Even sex between married couples is viewed as taboo. Amane’s family is irregular. Her parents copulated to create her and hope that she too will find love and have a child with the person she marries. But Amane falls in line with society’s way of thinking and wants a regular ‘clean’ marriage. Then she hears of a place that is the subject of a social experiment. Everyone in Paradise-Eden will act as one big family. Could this be the perfect third way?
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Four strangers on a train. An unlikely introduction ‘Actually, I’m a murderer.’ Set in the north-east of England in the seventies, the lives of four people are thrown into turmoil when sharing a carriage with an unremarkable little man with round glasses, on the night train back to Newcastle. By the end of the following day, one of them will be dead, one will turn blackmailer and another forced to commit a crime. And all of them will be under the astute and watchful observation of Aline, the local police officer with her own agenda to fulfil. And then the body count begins to rise which begs the question – just how many actual murderers are out there – and who will be the next victim?
Broken Country 
