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From a Costa Book of the Year winner,Booker nomineeand double Granta-selected Best Young British novelist comes a searing portrayal of trauma,policeabuse and the power of hope.Teaching nine-year-olds on Zoom. A relationship interrupted by enforced distance. A teenaged son who cannot leave the house. Anna McCormick is already struggling to cope with the unwanted twists 2020 has served up. But when an unstamped envelope arrives overnight, her past begins to cast its own long shadow on the present. With an uncaring government compounding her woes and a hostile threat drawing closer, Anna must dig deep to keep hope alive for herself and those around her.This is a twisty, heart-racing page-turner and viscerally rendered portrayal of abuse of power by the state, by the police and by the villains much closer to home.

Alive in the Merciful Country

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      Publisher: Saraband / Contraband
      Publication Date: 1/9/2025
      ISBN13: 9781916812284, 978-1916812284
      ISBN10: 1916812287
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      Book Synopsis
      From a Costa Book of the Year winner,Booker nomineeand double Granta-selected Best Young British novelist comes a searing portrayal of trauma,policeabuse and the power of hope.Teaching nine-year-olds on Zoom. A relationship interrupted by enforced distance. A teenaged son who cannot leave the house. Anna McCormick is already struggling to cope with the unwanted twists 2020 has served up. But when an unstamped envelope arrives overnight, her past begins to cast its own long shadow on the present. With an uncaring government compounding her woes and a hostile threat drawing closer, Anna must dig deep to keep hope alive for herself and those around her.This is a twisty, heart-racing page-turner and viscerally rendered portrayal of abuse of power by the state, by the police and by the villains much closer to home.

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