‘Love. Hate. So what? This is family. This is business.’
London is in ruins. The once-glorious city is now a gated wasteland cut off from the rest of the country and in the hands of two warring families – the Volsons and the Connors.
Val Volson offers the hand of his young daughter, Signy, to Connor as a truce. At first the marriage seems to have been blessed by the gods, but betrayal and deceit are never far away in this violent world, and the lives of both families are soon to be changed for ever . . .
‘Shies from nothing, making it both cruel and magnificent’ Guardian
‘An epic tale of treachery, deceit, sex, torture, violence, revenge and retribution’ Independent on Sunday
‘Will rank along with the 20th-century classics’ – Sunday Telegraph
Winner of the Lancashire Book Award
About the author
Melvin Burgess was born in London and brought up in Surrey and Sussex. He has had a variety of jobs before becoming a full-time writer. Before his first novel, he had short stories published and a play broadcast on Radio 4. He is now regarded as one of the best writers in contemporary children’s literature, having won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for his acclaimed novel Junk.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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