Burial Rites

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD'One of the most gripping, intriguing and unique books I've read this year' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthNorthern Iceland, 1829.A woman condemned to death for murdering her lover.A family forced to take her in.A priest tasked with absolving her.But all is not as it seems, and time is running out: winter is coming, and with it the execution date.Only she can know the truth. This is Agnes's story.'This compelling, ripped-from-real-life tale reminds me of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace' Karin Slaughter, author of Kisscut'A story of swirling sagas, poetry, bitterness, claustrophobia . . . holds an exhilaration that borders on the sublime' Sunday Telegraph'Extraordinary' Daily Express'Wonderfully strange and haunting' The Times 'A debut of rare sophistication and beauty' Observer von Kent, Hannah