Britannica gives this in-depth definition of the novel: “an invented prose narrative of appreciable size and a specific complexity that specials imaginatively with human knowledge, usually through a connected sequence of occasions involving a group of people in a particular setting” (Novel). Douglas Stuart’s blistering, Booker Prize-pr

This vivid Tale established at the end of the Roman Empire, follows Sparrow – a boy of no known origin living in a brothel. He spends his days Hearing tales informed by his beloved ‘mother’ Euterpe, jogging errands for her lover the Cook dinner, and dodging the blows in their brutal overseer. Fictional narrative: Fictionality is most o