Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr'Serious novels are rarely this fun' The Times 'A gift' Guardian When everything is lost, it's our stories that survive How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unforgettable cast of dreamers and outsiders from past, present and future to offer a vision of survival against all odds. Constantinople, 1453: An orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy with a love for animals risk everything on opposite sides of a city wall to

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Translated with an Introduction by Martin Hammond

abusive men is a thing of wonder Financial Times

Could the three of them form an unconventional family - and raise the baby together

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are shattered when she vanishes

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What they want is to be looked at in turn

moved and entertained by every page

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'Marvellous-exact and icy and loving all at once