Anne Michaels Held : Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024 Paperback

WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024The international bestsellerA Guardian Book of the YearChosen as a book of the year by the independent. co.ukHer prose is a thing of wonder TELEGRAPHMichaelss writing continues to stand head and shoulders above most other fiction OBSERVERThrough luminous moments of chance, change, and even grace, Michaels shows us our humanity MARGARET ATWOODMichaels is exceptionally open to beauty GUARDIAN The triumphant new novel from the author of the Orange Prizewinning Fugitive Pieces a soaring and luminous story of chance and change1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast as the snow falls. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures ghosts whose messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and reigniting as the century unfolds. In luminous moments of desire, comprehension, longing, transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their... | Anne Michaels Held : Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024 Paperback