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Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 2010.

 

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009.

 

An engrossing family saga set in the era of the late 19th century and up to the end of World War One. A simpler time, soon to change politically and socially, is shown to us through three families and the way the parents of each raise their children.

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