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...

1836, Prussia. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on her. A child of nature, she yearns instead for the rush of the river, the wind dancing around her. Hanne finds little comfort in the...