Shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award

‘A therapeutic dose of high-strength emotion’GUARDIAN

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: . 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.Burundi

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‘’ magazineRED

Heartening and hopeful‘’ JESS KIDD, author ofThings in Jars

Mesmerizingly beautiful‘’ SARAH HAYWOOD, author ofThe Cactus

An extraordinary masterpiece‘’ ANSTEY HARRIS, author ofThe Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton

‘Gutsy, endearing and entertaining’DEBORAH ORR

‘Absolutely brilliant’GAVIN EXTENCE, author ofThe Universe Versus Alex Wood

Augusta Hope has never felt like she fits in.