Skims like a stone over water… This is a fascinating, thought-provoking and heart-rending good read. Tracy Chevalier’s narrative skims like a stone over smooth water, warping time as effectively as fire transforms glass....

Fortune (Peepal Tree Press, 2021; shortlisted for the 2022 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction) packs a lot into a cracking good read. It’s a tense thriller, a moving love story, and a fascinating...