Where the Heart Should Be, the thought-provoking and moving new novel by Carnegie Medal winning author Sara Crossan, has been chosen for the Zoe Ball Radio 2 Book Club.
We have 10 copies to give away to one lucky book club – to enter just follow the email link below and tell us why your group would like to read the book.
UK residents only, enter by Friday 22 March.
Where the Heart Should Be
Ireland, 1846 Nell is working as a scullery maid in the kitchen of the Big House. Once she loved school and books and dreaming. But there’s not much choice of work when the land grows food that rots in the earth. Now she is scrubbing, peeling, washing, sweeping for Sir Philip Wicken, the man who owns her home, her family’s land, their crops, everything. His dogs are always well fed, even as famine sets in.
Upstairs in the Big House, where Nell is forbidden to enter, is Johnny Browning, newly arrived from England: the young nephew who will one day inherit it all. And as hunger and disease run rampant all around them, a spark of life and hope catches light when Nell and Johnny find each other.
This is a love story, and the story of a people being torn apart. This is a powerful and unforgettable novel from the phenomenally talented Sarah Crossan.
