Burntcoat av Sarah (Author) Hall

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<p><font><b>An electrifying story of passion, connection and transformation from ''a writer of show-stopping genius'' (<i>Guardian</i>).</b></font><br><br>''Dark and brilliant.'' <b>SARAH MOSS</b><br>''A masterpience.'' <b>DAISY JOHNSON<br></b>''Extraordinary.'' <b>SARAH PERRY<br></b><br>''Hall has set a bar . . . Finely wrought, intellecutally brave and emotionally honest.''<br><b><i>THE SCOTSMAN</i></b><br><br>In the bedroom above her immense studio at Burntcoat, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness is making her final preparations. The symptoms are well known: her life will draw to an end in the coming days.<br><br>Downstairs, the studio is a crucible glowing with memories and desire. It was here, when the first lockdown came, that she brought Halit. The lover she barely knew. A presence from another culture. A doorway into a new and feverish world. <br><br>''Sarah Hall makes language shimmer and burn . . . One of the finest writers at work today.''<br><b>DAMON GALGUT<br