WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024The international bestsellerA Guardian Book of the YearChosen as a book of the year by the .Her prose is a thing of wonder TELEGRAPHMichaelss writing continues to stand head and shoulders above most other fiction OBSERVERThrough luminous moments of chance change and even grace Michaels shows us our humanity MARGARET ATWOODMichaels is exceptionally open to beauty GUARDIAN The triumphant new novel from the author of the Orange Prizewinning Fugitive Pieces a soaring and luminous story of chance and change1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut John lies in the aftermath of a blast unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts he is lost to memory a chance encounter in a pub by a railway a hot bath with his lover on a winter night his childhood on a faraway coast as the snow falls.