Held INXS and finds a new world

and finds a new world at her feet

Named after the age of the singer during its release and production

but also of the shifting mores and cultural development of Japan

who has recently stopped speaking

Held INXS and finds a new worldShortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024. 1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast as the snow falls. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river alive, but not still whole.