Ancestry: Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

by Simon Mawer

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION

'Utterly absorbing, cleverly constructed and beautifully written' The Times

'Moving and exhilarating' Spectator

'Evokes the messiness and fragility of everyday life in the nineteenth century' Daily Mail


Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea ... Naomi, a seventeen-year-old seamstress, imagines a new life in the big city ... George, a private soldier of the 50th Regiment of Food, marries his Irish bride, Annie, in the cathedral in Manchester and together they face married life under arms. Now these people exist...

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  • ISBN10 1408714833
  • ISBN13 9781408714836
  • Publish Date 28 July 2022
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
  • Imprint Little, Brown
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 432
  • Language English