''Astonishingly brilliant. My book of the year.''
Liz Nugent, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond
For fans of Emily St John Mandel and Kazuo Ishiguro, an exhilarating literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighboured by its own past and future, and a young girl who faces an impossible choice...
Sixteen-year-old Odile Ozanne is an awkward, quiet girl, but everyone knows she''s destined to land a coveted seat on the Conseil. In her apprenticeship, she competes to become one of the judges to decide who amongst the town''s residents may travel across the border. If she earns the position, she''ll decree who may be escorted deep into the woods, who may cross the border''s barbed wire fence, who may make the arduous trek over the western mountain range - or perhaps the eastern range-to descend into the next valley over. It''s the same valley, the same town. However, to the east, the town is twenty years ahead
