Shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award
‘A therapeutic dose of high-strength emotion’ GUARDIAN
*JOANNA GLEN'S LATEST NOVEL MAYBE, PERHAPS, POSSIBLY IS OUT NOW*
Augusta Hope has never felt like she fits in.
At six, she’s memorising the dictionary. At seven, she’s correcting her teachers. At eight, she spins the globe and picks her favourite country on the sound of its name: Burundi.
And now that she's an adult, Augusta has no interest in the goings-on of the small town where she lives with her parents and her beloved twin sister, Julia.
When an unspeakable tragedy upends everything in Augusta's life, she's propelled headfirst into the unknown. She's determined to find where she belongs – but what if her true home, and heart, are half a world away?
‘It’s going to be all over every book club in Britain before you can say Burundi’
THE TIMES
‘Full of the reality of hope and despair in everyone’s lives’ MIRANDA HART
‘This gem of a novel entertains and moves in equal measure’ DAILY MAIL
‘Keep the tissues close’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
‘An irresistible message of redemption and belonging’ RED magazine
‘Heartening and hopeful’ JESS KIDD, author of Things in Jars
‘Mesmerizingly beautiful’ SARAH HAYWOOD, author of The Cactus
‘An extraordinary masterpiece’ ANSTEY HARRIS, author of The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton
‘Gutsy, endearing and entertaining’ DEBORAH ORR
‘Absolutely brilliant’ GAVIN EXTENCE, author of The Universe Versus Alex Wood
Flora
02/03/2022
Extremely long-winded and melodramatic. Many descriptions of very momentous events in the story are written with so little accuracy to human emotion that they simply fall flat. I found my eyes hurting from rolling them back into my head and my cringe muscles aching by the end of the story. The main character is an irredeemable egomaniac who the author tries to redeem without much success. She is self-centered, vapid, and one dimensional. It is incredibly tiresome to listen to this audiobook and if it were not for the dual narrative of a Burundian refugee who is actually interesting and not so self-absorbed I would have given up very early on. The narrative hinges on incredibly unlikely and unconvincingly written events to the point that the reader can no longer suspend their disbelief.
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