Amy and Lan
The enchanting new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Outcast
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:15th Jun '23
£9.99
Available for immediate dispatch.
HOW DID THE GOOD LIFE GO SO WRONG?
Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood. When their families make the leap from city living to a farm in the West Country they have untold freedom. The adults are far too busy to keep an eye on them, and Amy and Lan would never tell them about climbing on the high barn roof, or what happened with the axe that time, any more than their parents would tell them the things they get up to. Adult things, like betrayal, that threaten to bring the whole fragile idyll tumbling down...
'Funny and moving' Elizabeth Day
'A fabulous thing: vivid and funny, sometimes heart-rendingly sad' Guardian
'I couldn't put it down' Esther Freud
I adore Sadie Jones' writing... [Amy and Lan is] funny, moving, and really goes to the heart of why trying to change for the better isn't as simple as it sounds -- Elizabeth Day, *Day's Delights*
Jones's fictional landscape is jam-packed, abundant, and her smallholding as thick with intrigue as the Borgias' court... I don't think I've read another recent novel that better captures the pure sugar-rush of childhood; the sense of a life so exhilarating and ecstatic that it is almost too much to bear -- Xan Brooks * Guardian *
I couldn't put it down. Amy and Lan is a love letter to nature, to the seasons, to the ideal of simple living with all its human complications. It's a beautifully evoked story, full of empathy and hope -- Esther Freud, author of I COULDN'T LOVE YOU MORE
Achingly poignant... This is a novel of quiet beauty, vividly evoking the magnitude of childhood loss and the capacity for hope -- Stephanie Merritt * Observer *
A bright, bittersweet novel * Evening Standard, *Summer Reads of 2022* *
ISBN: 9781529116175
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
Weight: 256g
320 pages