Gradual

GradualIn the latest novel from one of the UK's greatest writers we return to the Dream Archipelago, a string of islands that no one can map or explain. Alesandro Sussken is a composer, and we see his life as he grows up in a fascist state constantly at war with another equally faceless opponent. His brother is sent off to fight; his family is destroyed by grief. Occasionally Alesandro catches glimpses of islands in the far distance from the shore, and they

Sura is an orphan

but with their father away in the Civil War and their mother struggling to make ends meet

An MI6 agent needs to make contact with Syrian rebel forces

He is confident that the skeletons in his past are hidden until

and summon the confidence to act and compete in any environment

But his new life is interrupted when a surprise attack comes from an unlikely angle and Evan is caught unaware

things begin to look up

Drawing on her experience as a finance CEO

When a substitute teacher begins to question him a little too closely

and his wife wants him dead

At the same moment that Jodie's baby brother takes his first step

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