Alice Jolly

From the multi-award-winning author – a beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel telling the story of a young girl’s battle for survival and search for the truth in occupied Vienna **WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2026**‘A shimmering masterwork’ Alice Austen‘An extraordinary novel about resilience’ Amanda Craig‘A mesmerising tapestry woven across history’ Gina Rippon‘Gripping and profound. A masterful work...

From the multi-award-winning author - a beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel telling the story of a young girl’s battle for survival and search for the truth in occupied Vienna. Adelheid Brunner does not speak. She writes and draws instead, and her ambition is to own one thousand matchboxes. Her grandmother cannot make sense of this, but Adelheid will stop at nothing...