The lie of the land*A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS* 'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY JANE BEER 'It couldn't be more relevant' JAMES O'BRIEN 'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES

decide to go to Africa for a year to run a mission

and bring us both terror and solace remains unsurpassed

'a Bolton version of Narnia'

through Dickensian iron and fog

autonomy and creativity

Didi fell in love

Matthew has been writing in journals since he was fifteen years old

You haven't got enough textbooks to go around

emotional lives

Peter Jobless is a down and out metal press operator

Travelling through Bethlehem

' But what is that exactly