Peculiar Ground

“Sophisticated and erudite. . . . Hughes-Hallett is a natural heir to A.S. Byatt, delivering a densely patterned novel that shimmers with human interest as it probes our cultural story.”— Wall Street Journal The Costa Award-winning author of  The Pike  makes her literary fiction debut with an extraordinary historical novel in the spirit of  Wolf Hall  and  Atonement —a great English country house novel, spanning three centuries, that explores surprisingly timely themes o