Name by Constance Debre Groundswell Speaker 2024 Plus plenty of jams

Plus plenty of jams

Don Paterson

Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn't so sure

Bloomsbury WildlifeISBN: 9781472969620Extent: 288 pages

Robin Hobb begins her epic tale of pirates

Name by Constance Debre Groundswell Speaker 2024 Plus plenty of jams'One of the most compulsive voices I've read in years' Olivia Laing, Observer 'You can't help but think of her work falling in the tradition of Annie Ernaux, just edgier. Her prose is gorgeously spare and practical' Irish Independent In the twin worlds of the French bourgeoisie and aristocracy, names are everything. By contrast, our narrator insists on shedding her surname, indelibly associated with France's political and colonial past. In Name, she