Coralena

Proof copy. 8vo. 374pp. Glossy wraps.

Shortlisted for both the Saltire and Scottish Arts Council book awards. Set in the fictional German town of Kussel in the early 1970s, author's debut novel examines the emotional scars left by the Holocaust, both on its victims and society at large. Mail won the 1999 Macallan/ Scotland on Sunday short story competition, with "The Neighbours Return," a dark tale set in post-war Poland. "A novel of high drama and suspense... Mail holds the reader on a knife-edge." –Sunday Express