A Complicated Matter

By the Costa First Novel Award-shortlisted author of MEET ME AT THE MUSEUM

Author  Anne Youngson
A Complicated Matter

Set against the Blitz in London, a young woman's extraordinary journey of self-discovery and an intimate meditation on what it takes to find our place in the world.

A March Best Book in Red

'NOTE PERFECT' East Riding Magazine
'AN EXTRAORDINARY NEW WRITER' Nina Stibbe

I used to believe the world had been created for me; every stone and grain of sand. As I grew older, I began to think of myself as something tacked on to the edge.

1939, London: From McPhail's Passage to Kensington's Grand Palace Hotel, Rose Dunbar is evacuated from her humble home on the Rock of Gibraltar and dropped into a chaotic city of falling bombs, perplexing class rules and bad weather. Despite being 'flagrantly foreign' to the locals,…

$35.99
April 25, 2023
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