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Luminous and intimate, The Given World is a story of belonging, loss and the richly interwoven connections between people, history and place. From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of All Among the Barley. April brings spring surging with it, giving rise, among many in the village,...
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Luminous and intimate, The Given World is a story of belonging, loss and the richly interwoven connections between people, history and place. From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of All Among the Barley.
April brings spring surging with it, giving rise, among many in the village, to a comforting illusion that all is somehow still right with the world, and that nothing will ever change.
In the ancient Welm Valley, something is shifting - the river is behaving oddly, while the arrival of spring, with its familiar rhythms, is shadowed by an undercurrent of unease.
A woman falls while out walking and hopes to be found before nightfall; a doctor realises, too late, that he has long underestimated his wife; across the village, people are plagued by the same vast and unsettling dream. And alone in a converted priory, overlooking watermeadows unchanged for centuries, Clare Grey receives news which will force her to reconsider her family's past and the fresh weight of her solitary existence.
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ISBN: 9781529154900
Publisher: Cornerstone
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 May 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Hutchinson Heinemann
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 208
About the Author
Melissa Harrison is a novelist, nature writer, podcaster and children's author. Her 2018 novel All Among the Barley was the UK winner of the European Prize for Literature. Her work has been shortlisted for the Costa Book Award and the Wainwright Prize and longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She lives in Suffolk.
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