A Long Way From Home, the new book from award-winning author Peter Carey, is out soon from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Set in the nineteen-fifties in the embers of the British Empire, painting a picture of Queen and subject, black, white and those in-between, this brilliantly vivid novel illustrates how the possession of an ancient culture spirals through history—and the love made and hurt caused along the way.
Read an excerpt from the beginning of the novel, shared by Faber & Faber:
