The Other Half of Augusta Hope: Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2019

The Other Half of Augusta Hope: Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2019

by JoannaGlen (Author)

Synopsis

`What a word it is - home - a million meanings packed up in a giant handkerchief and hanging from a pole which we carry across our shoulder.'

Meet Augusta Hope, from Hedley Green, and Parfait, from Burundi: two extraordinary people who dream of escaping their very different lives. Through Augusta and Parfait's intertwining stories, this astonishingly moving debut explores the meaning of home and the different places we find love, how we cope when we lose it and the role of fate in helping us find it again.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Publisher: The Borough Press
Published: 13 Jun 2019

ISBN 10: 0008314152
ISBN 13: 9780008314156

Author Bio

Joanna Glen read Spanish at the University of London, with a stint at the Faculty of Arts at Cordoba University in the south of Spain. She went on to teach Spanish and English to all ages, and, latterly, was a School Principal in London. She has edited a variety of non-fiction books, is a visiting lecturer, a communications coach and an adviser and trainer for schools. Joanna's short fiction has appeared in the Bath Flash Fiction Anthology. She lives with her husband and children on the River Thames in Battersea, returning to Andalusia whenever it gets too grey.