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Book of Days

Francesca Kay
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781800753518
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Apr 2025
  • Publisher: Swift Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

'At least that post-Reformation sovereignty of the word still yields novels as richly imagined and skilfully crafted as this' The Spectator

Longlisted for the 2025 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Longlisted in the 2024 HWA Crown Awards

ANNO DOMINI 1546.

In a manor house in England a young woman feels the walls are closing around her, while her dying husband is obsessed by his vision of a chapel where prayers will be said for his immortal soul. As the days go by and the chapel takes shape, the outside world starts to intrude. But as the old ways are replaced by the new, the people of the village sense a dangerous freedom …

Reader Reviews

‘A must read … Characters that one cares about, beautifully structured, a real page turner’

‘A jewel of a book’

‘Beautifully written’

‘Atmospheric and compelling'
About Francesca Kay
Francesca Kay grew up in Southeast Asia and India, and has subsequently lived in Jamaica, the United States, Germany and now lives in Oxford. Her first novel, An Equal Stillness, won the 2009 Orange Award for New Writers, and her second novel, The Translation of the Bones, was longlisted for the 2012 Women's Prize for Fiction. Her third novel, The Long Room, was published in 2016; The Book of Days is her fourth.

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