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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 03/03/2022
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ISBN: 9781529113877
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Length: 320 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 128mm
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Weight: 219g
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RRP: £8.99
The Promise
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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 and a BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021
One family. One promise. One chance to tell a new story.
**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME**
'A moving, brilliantly told family epic' Elizabeth Day
'Superb' Paula Hawkins
'Gripping' Daily Mail
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
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On a farm outside Pretoria, the Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for - not least their treatment of the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. Salome was to be given her own house, her own land...yet somehow, that vow is carefully ignored.
As each decade passes, and the family assemble again, one question hovers over them. Can you ever escape the repercussions of a broken promise?
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'A tour de force... A spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh' Booker Judges, 2021
'So powerful' Clare Chambers
'Astonishing' Colm Tóibín
'Bursting with life' The Times
'Utterly compelling' Patrick Gale
Shortlisted for the 2022 Rathbones Folio Prize
** A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, i AND NEW STATESMAN **
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 03/03/2022
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ISBN: 9781529113877
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Length: 320 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 128mm
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Weight: 219g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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A superb novel; a nuanced, sad, hilarious portrait of a family and a country
PAULA HAWKINS
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This story was so powerful, the writing so strong and supple... What an achievement
CLARE CHAMBERS
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A moving, brilliantly told family epic . . . darkly comic . . . phenomenally good
ELIZABETH DAY
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Layered, clever...with a gripping story
CLAIRE FULLER, Daily Mail, Books of the Year
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A brilliant book told over four decades and four funerals . . . These are characters dancing on the edge of ruin . . . Intoxicating
ANNA HOPE
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Astonishing . . . about fate and loss, about three siblings and land, a promise made a broken
COLM TOIBIN
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A remarkable tale of four generations of one South African family and of the country itself... No wonder it won the Booker
Observer, Books of the Year
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Vivid and suggestive, moving and often very funny
Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year
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Outstanding . . . Gripping . . . There is also plenty of unexpected comedy
BBC News
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Brilliant... Rarely have I had such a strong sense, while reading a novel, that I myself was there, in the room with the characters
Financial Times
