Adam's Story Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (1996) Secrets and suspicion are spreading

Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world

martyrdom and rebellion in a story whose emotional charge is a strong today as it was more than 150 years ago

how risk is managed

Winning will make you famous

Making full use of extensive and often neglected archive material in the India Office Library and National Army Museum

Adam's Story Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (1996) Secrets and suspicion are spreadingElder Roberts knows that he and his companion are out of their area. But he has only a few months left on his mission in New Jersey, and there's one door he just has to knock on. His mom's parents, who haven't seen him since he was a baby, live there. Maybe, just maybe, he can get them to accept the gospel like their daughter, Charly, did more than twenty years ago. And maybe he can find out something about his mother who died when he was a baby, and