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***Out now: Andrew Miller’s new novel THE LAND IN WINTER***
‘ANDREW MILLER’S WRITING IS A SOURCE OF WONDER AND DELIGHT’ Hilary Mantel

‘ONE OF OUR MOST SKILFUL CHRONICLERS OF THE HUMAN HEART AND MIND’ Sunday Times

***Winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award***

‘Irresistibly compelling’ Sunday Telegraph * ‘Dazzling’ Guardian * ‘A work of beauty’ The Times

An enthralling tale of an extraordinary year in pre-revolutionary Paris from the critically acclaimed author of Oxygen and The Slowworm’s Song

Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it.

At first Baratte sees this as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason. But before long, he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to his own.

PRAISE FOR ANDREW MILLER

‘Unique, visionary, a master at unmasking humanity’ Sarah Hall

‘A highly intelligent writer, both exciting and contemplative’ The Times

‘A wonderful storyteller’ Spectator

Publisher Review

His recreation of pre-Revolutionary Paris is extraordinarily vivid and imaginative, and his story is so gripping that you'll put your life on hold to finish it The Times His recreation of pre-Revolutionary Paris is extraordinarily vivid and imaginative, and his story is so gripping that you'll put your life on hold to finish it The Times Enthralling ... superbly researched, brilliantly narrated and movingly resolved Observer Enthralling ... superbly researched, brilliantly narrated and movingly resolved Observer Exquisite inside and out, PURE is a near-faultless thing Sunday Telegraph Exquisite inside and out, PURE is a near-faultless thing Sunday Telegraph