Almost LifeAlmost Life is Kiran Millwood Hargrave's breathtaking story of love and longing, of the lives we almost live and the choices we don't make and finding the courage to embrace who you really want to be. 'The biggest weepy since One Day' Stylist 'A heart rending tale of missed chances' Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain 'Immersive, sensual, beautiful and powerful' Marian Keyes, author of My Favourite Mistake 'Tender, sensual and thrumming with life'

The best Nordic noir I’ve read in ages

What do a murdered Brighton flowerseller

Secrets darker than any of them could have imagined

Five murder victims all with numbers written above

Huge fleets of sentient trader starships thrive

architect and former President of the Royal Academy

compulsive fun’ i

Will reluctantly agrees to consult

half-mages and puppet companions

trading their paintbrushes and pens for the weapons of war

John Curran shows the evolution of Agatha's writing through the decades

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