Little Brown Book Group Extract

PROLOGUE Saturday, September 7, 2002 Joanna Duncan stepped out of the office building and crossed the road with her head down against the rain. The rain was good, thought the man watching her from inside […]

Prologue   ‘Where is the exit?’ I cry for what seems like the hundredth time. ‘I can’t find it!’ All around me are people. People crying. People shouting. People panicking. None of us can find […]

At this point in the novel, the main character Ivy Edwards is learning the art of “faking it till you make it”. In between teacher training, job applications and first dates, she’s feeling a bit […]

Julia Jones sat at her desk, the divorce papers in front of her, shouting at her to pick up the pen, sign her name, and put an end to this insanity once and for all. […]

I was on my way to scrounge some tobacco from Lucy, who I sometimes call L- Plate, and is probably the poshest person I’ve ever met – who doesn’t like anyone touching her and thinks […]

AUTHOR’ S NOTE On August 1, 1953, the United States Congress announced House Concurrent Resolution 108, a bill to abrogate nation-to-nation treaties, which had been made with American Indian Nations for “as long as the […]

3rd December 1901 It was a hard walk up the hill, especially carrying a valise. Sometimes she had to pick her way through muddy hollows, where hoofs and wheels had churned the ground. The recent […]

When I was twenty-one, I fell in love with Pol. I moved to Barcelona to be close to him, and we married soon after. Within a year of our wedding I was pregnant, but things […]

Let Me Take You By The Hand is an x-ray of life on the streets today: the stories in their own words of those who work and live in our capital. Introduction Let me take you […]

      A quiet man is a patient man. He chooses his words with care and speaks only when there is something worth saying. He is a watcher, a listener. He pays attention without seeking it and knows […]