Given World

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Luminous and intimate, The Given World is a story of belonging, loss and the richly interwoven connections between people, history and place. From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of All Among the Barley.

April brings spring surging with it, giving rise, among many in the village, to a comforting illusion that all is somehow still right with the world, and that nothing will ever change.

In the ancient Welm Valley, something is shifting: the river is behaving oddly, while the arrival of spring, with its familiar rhythms, is shadowed by an undercurrent of unease.

A woman falls while out walking and hopes to be found before nightfall; a doctor realises, too late, that he has long underestimated his wife; across the village, people are plagued by the same vast and unsettling dream. And alone in a converted priory, overlooking watermeadows unchanged for centuries, Clare Grey receives news which will force her to reconsider her family's past and the fresh weight of her solitary existence.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781529154900
Published: May 2026

Number of pages: 208
Width: 135 mm
Height: 216 mm
Depth: 20 mm

Publisher: Cornerstone