An Island

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE

'Moving, transfixing' BOOKER PRIZE JUDGES

'Absorbing...powerful' Catherine Taylor, GUARDIAN

A young refugee washes up unconscious on the beach of a small island inhabited by no one but Samuel, an old lighthouse keeper. Unsettled, Samuel is soon swept up in memories of his former life on the mainland: a life that saw his country suffer under colonisers, then...