The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien #literature John Murray PressISBN: 9781473695993Extent: 272

John Murray PressISBN: 9781473695993Extent: 272 pages

YOU decide what happens in this story

Elaine Risley

unlikely friendship

The scent of just-crushed rosemary and trailing bay leaves lingers softly on the skin

The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien #literature John Murray PressISBN: 9781473695993Extent: 272Why did people, who lived so briefly in this universe, contain so much time? Lina and her ailing father have taken refuge at an enclave called the Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions, among them three volumes from The Great Lives of Voyagers encyclopaedia series. In this mysterious and shape shifting building, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her unusual neighbours: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth