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The Minstrels (Eva Hornung, Text)

Tuesday, 3 February 2026    Books+Publishing
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A beautiful yet distressing work of rural fiction, The Minstrels by Eva Hornung (The Last Garden; Dog Boy) draws together the epic moral scope of John Steinbeck, the dystopian unease of Margaret Atwood and the sobering emotional intimacy of John Williams to create a startlingly original portrait of familial love...

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