About

At Mr B's Emporium, they are delighted to welcome acclaimed novelist and nature writer, Melissa Harrison, for her stunning new novel, The Given World.

Melissa's previous novels, All Among the Barley and At Hawthorn Time, are among their team's favourite books, so they couldn't be more thrilled to welcome Melissa to the shop for the very first time to celebrate this beautiful new novel of connection, belonging and loss.

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About the book

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.

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. Her non-fiction includes The Stubborn Light of Things and Homecoming. She lives in Suffolk.