Nightingale

‘She knew it was a trick of the lonely to favour the rude to the simply unmoved; that the loneliest thing in these villages and in this most tucked-away of professions was to elicit no response at all.’ Marina Kemp’s debut novel Nightingale is shortlisted for the 2020 Young Writer of the Year Award. The post Nightingale appeared first on Granta. Continue reading at 'Granta'

[ Granta | 2020-11-05 11:53:49 UTC ]

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