GILEAD – MARILYNNE ROBINSON

"WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AN OPRAH S BOOK CLUB PICK In 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames s life, he begins a letter to his young son: I told you last night that I might be gone sometime… You reached up and put your fingers on my lips and gave me that look I never in my life saw on any other face besides your mother s. It s a kind of furious pride, very passionate and stern. I m always a little surprised to find my eyebrows unsinged after I ve suffered one of those looks. I will miss them. A visionary work of dazzling originality ROBERT MCCRUM, OBSERVER Writing of this quality, with an authority as unforced as the perfect pitch in music, is rare and carries with it a sense almost of danger JANE SHILLING, DAILY TELEGRAPH A beautiful novel: wise, tender and perfectly measured SARAH WATERS A masterpiece SUNDAY TIMES"