From the best-selling author of Room, a story of love pitted against evil and a major Netflix film starring Florence Pugh

'An evocative piece of storytelling that weaves sublimely like its witch knots' - Susan Stokes-Chapman The stage is set for the witch-hunt to begin...

A literary coming-of-age story set in twentieth-century China. The Colonel is an almost mythic figure shrouded in the tragedy of war and history - but why does everyone call him 'the Eunuch'?

Shortlisted for The Booker Prize 2023.

Masterful . . . has much to say to our times' Guardian

'Begs to be read' Spectator

'A luminous, thought-provoking novel' Esi Edugyan, author of Washington Black

In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. More than a century later, the Honeys' descendants remain, with an eccentric, diverse band of neighbours. But during one tumultuous summer at the dawn of the twentieth c...