The Midnight News Kate Mascarenhas if it lived

if it lived

and his doctor suspects he is an English soldier

Philip Hensher brings us another slice of contemporary life

Lin vows to reclaim her birthright by mastering the forbidden art of bone shard magic

find out the meanings of dislocation

The Midnight News Kate Mascarenhas if it lived'Impressive and satisfying . . . a novel that succeeds both in creating pages that turn themselves, and in continually feeding the reader's sense of wonder' Daily Telegraph It is 1940 and twenty year old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother who never returned from France, she is working hard to keep her own little life ticking over: holding down a dull typist job at the