Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel

‘There is magic in this place … You just have to sit and breathe and wait and it will find you’

Fifteenth-century Constantinople. Present day Idaho. The future, and humanity’s last hope.

Across time and space, five young dreamers are bound by a single ancient text. Together, they tell a story of a world in peril; of the power of words, of resilience, and of hope against all odds.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of returns with a heart-breaking, magnificent epic of human connection and a love letter to storytelling itself.All the Light We Cannot See

‘Wonderment and despair, love and destruction and hope – all find their place in its sumptuously plotted pages’Observer

‘Ingenious, hopeful and totally absorbing’Financial Times

‘This engagingly written, big-hearted book is a must-read’Daily Mirror

THE BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTSUNDAY TIMES ‘A dazzling epic of love, war and the joy of books’Guardian