Expectation
'The MOST BUZZED-ABOUT, ADDICTIVE read' - STYLIST An edgy, emotionally confronting, contemporary novel of friendship, sex, desire, motherhood, and feminism. THE MUST-READ SUMMER 2020 RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 'If you wished Normal People had tackled female friendship, try Expectation' - GRAZIA 'Profoundly intelligent and humane. Deserves to feature on many a prize shortlist' - GUARDIAN 'A brilliant exploration...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowAlbion
Albion shakes the country house novel to its foundations, in a story of family, inheritance, and accountability. The Brooke family are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home — twenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstone — to bury Philip, husband, father, and the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as long as they can remember. Frannie, inheritor of...Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksAlbion
Albion shakes the country house novel to its foundations, in a story of family, inheritance, and accountability. The international bestseller from the author of Expectation The Brooke family are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home—at the heart of a thousand acres of English countryside—to bury Philip: husband, father, and the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as...Paperback$2800Unit price /UnavailableOut 18 Aug 2026Pre-order