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  • Published: 19 September 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529116175
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.99

Amy and Lan




How did the good life go so wrong? A child's-eye view of family and rural life in the compelling new novel from the no.1 bestselling author, Sadie Jones.

HOW DID THE GOOD LIFE GO SO WRONG?

Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood. When their families make the leap from city living to a farm in the West Country they have untold freedom. The adults are far too busy to keep an eye on them, and Amy and Lan would never tell them about climbing on the high barn roof, or what happened with the axe that time, any more than their parents would tell them the things they get up to. Adult things, like betrayal, that threaten to bring the whole fragile idyll tumbling down...

'Funny and moving' Elizabeth Day

'A fabulous thing: vivid and funny, sometimes heart-rendingly sad' Guardian

'I couldn't put it down' Esther Freud

  • Published: 19 September 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529116175
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Sadie Jones

Sadie Jones is a novelist and screenwriter. Her first novel, The Outcast (‘Devastatingly good’, Daily Mail) won the Costa First Novel Award in 2008 and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. It was also a Richard and Judy Summer Reads number one bestseller and adapted for BBC Television. Her second novel, Small Wars (‘Outstanding’, The Times; ‘One of the best books about the English at war ever’, Joel Morris), was published in 2009, and longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her third, in 2012, was The Uninvited Guests (‘A shimmering comedy of manners and disturbing commentary on class... a brilliant novel’, Ann Patchett) followed by Fallout in 2014 (‘Intoxicating and immersive’, The Sunday Times).

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