Afternoon Hours of a Hermit by Patrick Cottrell #joyce Clarke Award for Best Novel

Clarke Award for Best Novel on 24th August 2016

More devastated still when it becomes clear that her death was not an accident

but also thrilling and beautiful

A beautiful clothbound edition of the much-loved modern classic The Extremely Embarrassing Life of Lottie Brooks

and marked the start of rail travel in Britain

Afternoon Hours of a Hermit by Patrick Cottrell #joyce Clarke Award for Best NovelDATE OF RELEASE: 22 SEPT 2026 When Korean adoptee Dan Moran receives a photo of his deceased brother in the mail, the mysterious letter addressed to his deadname drags him back to Milwaukees airless suburbs. There, armed with an eye for inquiry and his favourite existential turtleneck, Dan navigates estrangement and mistaken identity, urgently trying to decode the three names his brother left scrawled in marker on his fingertips. The much anticipated