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JO BAKER is the author of the acclaimed and bestselling LONGBOURN and A COUNTRY ROAD, A TREE. Her latest novel, THE BODY LIES, is a thrilling contemporary novel that explores violence against women in fiction but is also a disarming story of sexual politics. Jo Baker lives with her family in Lancashire.

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Skilful . . . daring . . . an extraordinary story

* The Guardian *
[It is] the unexpected Beckett that is on show here. Baker pays tribute to a man who joined the French Resistance, narrowly escaped the Gestapo, fled south on foot and went into hiding, and was eventually awarded the Croix de Guerre * The Times *
A fascinating fictional account of Samuel Beckett's wartime years * IAN RANKIN *
Beautifully written, empathetic and unflinching, it is very, very good * Daily Mail *
vivid and well-wrought * Times Literary Supplement *

A Country Road A Tree

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Black Swan
      Published 9 February 2017
      ISBN-13 9780552779524
      978-0552779524
      ISBN-10 0552779520
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      JO BAKER is the author of the acclaimed and bestselling LONGBOURN and A COUNTRY ROAD, A TREE. Her latest novel, THE BODY LIES, is a thrilling contemporary novel that explores violence against women in fiction but is also a disarming story of sexual politics. Jo Baker lives with her family in Lancashire.

      Trade Review

      Skilful . . . daring . . . an extraordinary story

      * The Guardian *
      [It is] the unexpected Beckett that is on show here. Baker pays tribute to a man who joined the French Resistance, narrowly escaped the Gestapo, fled south on foot and went into hiding, and was eventually awarded the Croix de Guerre * The Times *
      A fascinating fictional account of Samuel Beckett's wartime years * IAN RANKIN *
      Beautifully written, empathetic and unflinching, it is very, very good * Daily Mail *
      vivid and well-wrought * Times Literary Supplement *

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