From award-winning novelist Caryl Phillips, a heartrending story of orphans, outcasts and the grip of the past
Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction, including the novels Crossing the River (shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1993) and A Distant Shore (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2004). Phillips has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN Open Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, as well as being named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 1992 and one of the Granta Best of Young British Writers 1993. He has also written for television, radio, theatre and film.
Heartbreaking... Compelling
*Independent*
The prose is as sleek as you would expect from a writer as
accomplished as Phillips
*Guardian*
Phillips has found a way to enlist the strange energy of Emily
Brontë’s work and redirect it to powerful and surprising effect
*Times Literary Supplement*
Expertly written and artfully crafted
*Daily Mail*
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