Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Betty Trask Prize, The Land of Decoration is blissfully inventive, brilliantly written, with a huge heart, and a tense, pulsing plot - it introduces a young heroine who will change the way you see the world.
Grace McCleen lives in London. The Land of Decoration is her first novel.
An extraordinary and peculiarly haunting novel
*author of The Other Hand*
Extraordinary
*Emma Donoghue, author of Room*
Enchanting and compellingly dark... This is an intensely personal
story, but told with a lightness of touch and air of magic
*Mail on Sunday Books of the Year*
A tremendously affecting novel, skillfully and arrestingly written,
and one that packs a big emotional punch
*Sunday Times*
Both sinister and sharply intriguing, with a completely convincing
eleven-year-old narrator caught in fundamentalism, school
persecution and the edge of the miraculous
*Guardian, Books of the Year*
Bursting with tension and tenderness, this novel is a small miracle
in itself
*Daily Mail*
Grace McCleen's writing is deep, fantastical and powerful... She
has been able to observe a fascinating world with generosity,
wonder and spirit. A wonderful gem of a debut
*Independent on Sunday*
Affecting and brilliantly written…a truly awe-inspiring debut
*Stylist*
Surprising, affecting, thoughtful and complex, McCleen's novel
grows in power the more time you spend with it
*Observer*
Exquisitely written and imagined
*Woman & Home*
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