'One of the best novels of the year so far' The Times A SPECTATOR
BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Unlike anything I've read. Haunting and huge, and
funny and sensuous. It's wonderful' Tessa Hadley 'I just enjoyed it
so very much' Philip Pullman It is the 17th century and a wall is
being built around a great house. Wychwood is an enclosed world,
its ornamental lakes and majestic avenues planned by Mr Norris,
landscape-maker. A world where everyone has something to hide after
decades of civil war, where dissidents shelter in the forest,
lovers linger in secret gardens, and migrants, fleeing the plague,
are turned away from the gate. Three centuries later, another wall
goes up overnight, dividing Berlin, while at Wychwood, over one
hot, languorous weekend, erotic entanglements are shadowed by news
of historic change. A little girl, Nell, observes all. Nell grows
up and Wychwood is invaded. There is a pop festival by the lake, a
TV crew in the dining room and a Great Storm brewing. As the Berlin
wall comes down, a fatwa signals a different ideological faultline
and a refugee seeks safety in Wychwood. From the
multi-award-winning author of The Pike comes a breathtakingly
ambitious, beautiful and timely novel about game keepers and
witches, agitators and aristocrats, about young love and the pathos
of aging, and about how those who wall others out risk finding
themselves walled in.
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