The Hired Man

An award-winning Scottish and Sierra Leonean novelist “ brilliantly portrays the atmosphere” of Croatia in this haunting tale of war, history, and secrets ( The Guardian ).   Visitors are not common in the small Croatian village of Gost, so Duro is surprised to see a strange car pull up to a well-known farmhouse just outside of town. Laura, a British woman, and her two children are refurbishing the home to be their summer cottage, and Duro agrees to lend a hand, becoming Laura’s confidant a